Re: Hard Drive

"Xandros" <arron.neus*remove*@gmai.lcom> wrote in message news:%23kAAUX7dIHA.4712@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

"Brian A." <gonefish'n@afarawaylake> wrote in message news:%23g36KbqdIHA.4712@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
"Stan Brown" <the_stan_brown@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:MPG.222a7e7639c1793598b4d1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sat, 23 Feb 2008 23:08:15 GMT from John
<john.plant90nospam@xxxxxxxxxxxx>:
I have been thinking of getting an external hard drive to back-up my files
as an insurance against a failure of the existing PC (happened to me once).
However, I am wondering if an additional internal will be better and
cheaper. If I get a new PC I could swap it over.

Any views? Also is there a suitable back-up program which automatically
detects changes and overwrites the back-up

The purpose of a backup is to guard against your computer being virus
infected, electrically zapped, destroyed, or stolen. If any of those
happens, it will most likely affect an internal hard drive as well.

I'm not aware of any backup utility, application or procedure that will stop, guard or protect against any of the issues you mention. Could you please provide any/all proven information, documentation and links so those among us who are unaware of this new technology can help others with it.


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Brian A. Sesko { MS MVP_Windows Desktop User Experience }
Conflicts start where information lacks.
http://basconotw.mvps.org/


Brian try asking your question in one of the private MVP groups. You look like an idiot asking it in a public forum.

You have your opinion and I have mine.
Backups on internal or external media do not guard against being virus infected, electrically zapped, destroyed, or stolen.

The system could unknowingly already be infected and any backup would include that infection. Restoring that backup would restore the infection as well.
Although external media is safeguarded from an electrical spike, an electrical spike can happen any time the external media is /connected used.
External media can be destroyed or stolen from anywhere at any time unless it's locked away in a vault.

(ever hear of Acronis TrueImage,
BootIt NG, Ghost?)

Ever read my response to the OP?


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Brian A. Sesko { MS MVP_Windows Desktop User Experience }
Conflicts start where information lacks.
http://basconotw.mvps.org/

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How to ask a question: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555375


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