Re: External Hard Drive for recovery
- From: Stan Brown <the_stan_brown@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2006 18:37:45 -0500
Fri, 6 Jan 2006 09:34:04 -0800 from Sean
<Sean@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> I have installed an external hard drive to my computer in order to back up
> all my important data. The main reason is I live in New Orleans and was
> fortunate my house wasn't destroy or flooded out, and I want a future means
> of bring my important data with me the next time I evacuate.
>
> My question is: If I evacuate and take my external hard drive with all my
> important data (music, photos, documents, etc.) on it with me, and my
> computer gets destroyed, will I ever be able to recover the data on my
> external hard drive?
Unless you've made really bad choices about backup methods, you will
be able to do that quite easily.
One wrinkle is that you _can't_ just copy your C: drive to the
external drive: Windows will skip open files and files you may not
have privilege to. You need a drive imaging program. I use Acronis
True Image but there are fine competing products.
Whatever backup software you get, follow the instructions to make a
"rescue disk". Then you'll be able to do a restore from the external
drive without having the original hard drive in the original
computer.
P.S. Keep your external drive unplugged both from the power and from
your computer except while you're in the act of making a backup. That
way you reduce its vulnerability to electrical surges, destructive
software, and such.
--
Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems, Tompkins County, New York, USA
http://OakRoadSystems.com/
"Do I smell the revolting stench of self-esteem?"
-- Jon Lovitz, in /The Producers/ (2005)
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