what is the best way to back up your pc these days?
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USB External hard drives are very affordable and have the advantage of being portable. Another alternative is copying your data to a DVD(s). Then store them offsite in case of a fire or other disaster.
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You can purchase a large hard drive (e.g. 200 GB or bigger) and attach it to an USB 2.0 external case.  You then can use the drive as external drive to store all your important files.  You can use Norton Ghost (2003 version is great!: it's fastest because it works through DOS) to clone your hard drive to CD-Rs or DVDs, thus creating "recovery" CDs in case your boot drive dies.
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Contact your local Computer Guy, there are ways to get the disk and the data out of your laptop without powering it up.
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Norton ghost is not suitable in your case because you only want to backup the data, not the whole harddrive. \n\nThere is a program is call SecondCopy which can do a scheduled automatically backup your data files into any other drive at the background. The program is small and very stable. \n\nYou can download from the below link\n\n\nd10v01b
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Back up anything/everything thats important or stuff you wish to keep such as emails from applications like Outlook Express etc on either a dvd-R rom or a CD-r rom, from your hard disks this can be C:&#92; D:&#92; etc however if you have only one harddisk you should double check you have everything you dont want to lose backed up. \n\nwhen your done backing up(burning files to disc or copying them to external HD) restart the system insert Windows XP CD\nboot from it. To boot from the windows XP cd go to bios (at start up of your computer press delete) and go to the Boot Up section in the bios and set the CDROM drive as first to Boot. save&exit choose Yes, the system should than restart and prompt you if you wish to boot from the CDrom.\n\nOnce you in the windows XP setup interface, after laoding a few neccessery files it will ask you where you wish to install windows, choose to format or delete a drive. Warning this will completely remove that partition(where your older windows including files located on that HD, but we backed the files we wish to keep so you should be fine). \nOnce you have chosen for it to delete the partition you may need to create a New partition in order to continue the setup of windows XP. Thus create a new partition and choose to have windows installed on it there.\n\nWhen windows XP setup copies all files and restarts your system. go to bios again, and set the boot up Not cdrom first but your HD. otherwise it will keep promting if you wish to boot from cd (we passed that fase so you dont need to boot from cd anymore, unless).\nSave the changes you made in the bios (booting from HD) and the system will restart from there IT should be smoooth sailing. \n\n- OR -\n\na simpler way, you can just backup your files(burning them)\nwhen your done you delete them ALL, including mails from applications such as Outlook Express, or received files from MSN and other download applications. \n\nand your done, however this method always leave traces of maybe things you wish not to share with the person your selling your system to. \n\nIf all this sound too complicated, i suggest you find someone who knows about computers to help you back up your stuff and reinstall everything fresh and new for the person your selling the system to. \n\n\nGood luck!
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I can recommend you to buy Acronis True Image 10.0. It will allow you to backup your entire PC or separated files and program settings. True Image will allow you to store your images on DVDs or another devices. It has a scheduler that will backup your data as often as you want. I think True Image is the fastest and effective backup software for now. \nlearn more about True Image here: http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing/products/trueimage/
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if you are running windows XP you can use the file and settings transfer wizzard to make a back-up copy of your computer. then you can do a fresh install and using the back-up copy and the file and setting transfer wizzard you can put your info back on the puter. the wizzard will let you choose what files you wan to keep. you could also use your external drive to back-up to. create new folders on your external and move the files you want there.
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Try this \n\n1.  Backup your personal stuff (your mp3's, pictures, word documents etc)\n\n2.  Insert your XP disk and re-imaged it.\n3.  Load your drivers, programs, windows and virus updates\n4.  Copy your stuff back.\n\nInstead of trying to diagnose your problem or taking your computer to a professional and spending couple of hudred dollors, you can do it yourself.  Its not as hard as it seems.\n\nGood luck
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Go to this website, and it will explain, what you need to back up..I hope this helps you..Good Luck..\nhttp://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/update/backup.mspx
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western digital offers a one touch back up solution which should probably fit your needs. its an external hard drive which works as soon as as you press a button or you can do it automatically. it normally goes on sale at best buy. i got one for $60 with 160gb
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Nope, you shouldn't.  But just to be safe, whenever I have done this, I always back up important data. As a matter of fact,  since there is such a high rate of disk failure,  its always good practice to back up your important files.
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are you doing a back up of your PC or a server? Veritas is a good piece of software for running automated backups its a bit pricey for home PC use but it works great especially for multiple server backup. If you are just backing up your home PC I would invest in a external hard drive and then write a simple xcopy batch script to copy your hard drive data to the external drive. Once you have the script written you can use windows schedule tasks feature to schedule your script to run on auto over night. I think this is the most cost efficient way to back data. If you need help with the batch script send me an email at somascope@hotmail.com and I can walk you through it.
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short answer will be use a flash device. It requires no power, has no moving parts and as long as you have access to a USB port, it will be available.\n\nSecond option will be a HD, if kept stored in a safe environment, you wont have to worry about the information, giving you more space than the flash drive.\n\nThose are the expensive choices.\n\nThe way i do it is using incremental backups, i started with a cd holding pictures and documents, that i keep on my hard drive. Every time i increase  significantly my documents, i make another backup.\n\nI dont dispose of all the old backups so i have at least three disks (cd or dvd) with my documents, and the hd where i keep the files.
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Create a back up of a software, for what ?\n\nYou dont create backups of the installed version of the version. You just save the file generally called "setup.exe" on a CD or floppy depending on you .
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Use a hard drive or pen drive.
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you cant unless you have a backup program utility
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u cant there are quiter hard drive out there now or get a better power supply