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Please back up your PC data...
Posted by Barry Cram on January 21, 2021, 5:25 pm
Hello folks,
As our resident computer expert, Ricky, often says – and it can’t be said often enough when it comes to computers – please back up your PC data.
Please don’t rely on a brand-new computer with a huge hard drive, to save all of your family photographs and other data to, as it could easily crash at any time, and you could lose everything. Please save your data to an external hard drive, and if possible, make a duplicate.
Good reminder Barry .A backup is so often overlooked and it just takes a virus or hard drive fault and you run the risk of losing the lot. Remember you can never backup your program/software, once installed you can never retrive them , you can only re-install them. So, it pays you to keep all your program/software disks in one place just incase you ever need to re-install them. Suprising how many people forget to look into the DOWNLOAD folder too. Everything you download goes into this folder and it's easy to forget about.
And keeping a second back in an outhouse or detached garage, or with a trusted neighbour is also advisable to cover the awful possibility of losing everything in a fire. I have a 1TB permanantly backing up my PC drive and an old much smaller capacity device in the garage which I back up from time to time with important stuff, mainly photos jic. And thanks Gentlemen for starting this post......you have reminded me that I have not backed up to the latter for about 9 months. Off to get it now!!
Hello Ricky, and Mac (Cummings), for the sensible advice.
Setting up any computer from scratch takes quite some time – to set up my computer: dates, time, customising Windows10, etc., to just as I prefer it, then loading all my programmes, takes about 3 hours.
This Docking Station makes copies of hard drives, large or small, for tower and laptop – though, some computers are sealed, so that entry to the hard drive is only accessible to experts.
You can set up your laptop or tower to just how you like it, then - if it has a removable hard drive - you can remove the main hard drive containing the operating system, and then pop it into this Dual Bay Docking machine along with another hard drive, best of the same make and capacity and then make an exact copy; then, if ever your computer becomes slow or starts acting up, you can remove the defective hard drive and replace it with the fresh one in minutes - how good's that? 🙂
Then, when you have a little spare time, you can write over the hard drive that was acting up, with your fresh copy, therefore, always having a copy available should anything go wrong. Anyone with a bit money might like to have 2 or more spare duplicate drives.
Please note that the backed up hard drive can only work on the computer model that it was copied from, as it contains the system software that manages that computers hardware and software.
Cheers, Barry.
Re: An alternative…
Posted by Davy on January 22, 2021, 5:36 pm, in reply to "An alternative…"
I havent got a lot of important stuff to back up. But all my photos are in google photos. It frees up my phone and I can look at them from any device I am on.
