RE: Back up?...

From: RobLee (RobLee_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 11/10/04


Date: Tue, 9 Nov 2004 19:29:01 -0800

i have a DVD burner. my hddr is 80 gig, 34.5 used, how many discs would this
take, could i use nero to burn it and if the worst came to the worst could i
boot from these discs......P.S. thx for your reply much appreciated.

"Richie" wrote:

> Two choices:
> As you said your personal stuff
> And of course full drive backups are possible, all
> depends on what you wish to protect.
>
> With DVD burners it is now quite easy to perform total
> backups on as little as two or three disks.
>
> And with large add on hard drives you can send the backup
> data right inside your machine.
>
> I have an second internal 120G hard drive everything is
> backed up there.
> >-----Original Message-----
> >Hi all.
> > I hear people talking about backing up ur files in case
> of problems, what i
> >need to know is which files i should be backing up,
> (not including my
> >personal data) and how to back them up as i dont seem to
> have a backup
> >utility.....Answers in leymans terms please as i am a
> novice. thx.
> >.
> >
>



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