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    guide idea: how to back up you're hd

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by The Intimidator, Aug 23, 2008.

  1. The Intimidator

    The Intimidator Notebook Enthusiast

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    I have a idea for a guide that I feel could help alot of people out. I have been trying to figure out this for myself and am pretty lost as to what need's to be done to preserve all my valuable info. Such as music, photo's, movies, documents, ect ect without bringing all the crap along with it. My scenario is I want to upgrade to a bigger faster hd and a 64bit version of windows and I want a safe copy of my stuff incase of a system failure.

    My idea for the guide would go something like this,

    Intro,
    Why is it important to back up you're hd, What steps should be taken to preserve you're data and a overview of the guide.

    Sect one,
    Methods avaliable to back up you're data, What is best, should you be redundent with more then one copy ect.

    Sect two,
    How to properly back up you're data, what to back up, what not to back up, how to make sure you have everything important without all the clutter.

    Sect three,
    now that you have all you're data safe and secure on a seperate hd, dvd's ect What steps should be taken to preserve future data or items that change alot such as you're music library that is alway's growing.

    Sect four,
    Organizing you're data so it is all in one place, Music in one folder video's in another document's in another ect ect. I know that these folders already exist on you're computer but how to you keep them all organized because they always seem to get scattered about after a while. ex, I have music in about 4 or 5 different folders I'm not sure how they got so spread out and I am not sure how to consolidate them without messing up the programs that use the files.

    Sect five,
    Would be recovering from a system crash or transferring all you're data to that fancy new hd you bought.

    I feel that this would help out alot of people who are not backing up their data because they don't know how or get overwhelmed trying to figure it out. I know you can just make a shadow copy and transfer everything but I and I imagine alot of people really just want to keep their important stuff and get rid of the junk that is slowing their system down and taking up all their hd space. I hope somebody can put this into reality and I hope I posted this in the right section Thanks alot :)
     
    The Intimidator, Aug 23, 2008
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  2. ljx718

    ljx718 Notebook Enthusiast

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    im sorry, but it's bothering me too much. its "your" not "you're"
     
    ljx718, Aug 24, 2008
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