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To: Secret Agent Man

Forgot to mention, for a laptop with 500GB drive (about half full)

5 posted on 01/08/2015 3:42:14 PM PST by TurboZamboni (Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.-JFK)

To: TurboZamboni

500gb...yea, that would be alot of dvds

16 posted on 01/08/2015 3:51:17 PM PST by cd jones (I am HD/ADD - (hardly pay attention, but when I do...it's very very clear))

To: TurboZamboni

Forgot to mention, for a laptop with 500GB drive (about half full)

Depends on what you want to do. If your preference is to backup the entire drive, OS and all, then Ghost or Acronis are excellent choices to do that. If your laptop hdd fails, you can install a new drive in your laptop and recover the entire thing using Ghost or Acronis.

If all you're doing is backing up your DATA (Documents, spreadsheets, music, etc..) then pretty much any external USB drive sold today comes with a decent backup program to do that. EaseUS is pretty popular and I have that on my kids computers to backup their school data.

You'll need a separate hard drive to backup to. USB drives work well with laptops for that.

24 posted on 01/08/2015 4:10:49 PM PST by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))

To: TurboZamboni

Is all the 250G of stuff on the drive “that” valuable to you ?

I always keep important stuff in its own directories.

Then I can easily back up on thumb drives.

25 posted on 01/08/2015 4:16:45 PM PST by PieterCasparzen (We have to fix things ourselves)

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