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I'm afraid that's not possible without an external drive sorry :(. Here are insructions on how to do it with an exteranl drive. P.S. you will need an external drive and and empty DVD disc. Go to My Computer, right-click on the C Drive, select back up. Place a DVD in the external drive, make sure you have at least two, in case one is not enough. You will see the DVD backing up. And then a cop of our hard drive will be on that disc.
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What is difference between external hard drive and external backup drive?
An external drive is the same as an internal drive just not installed inside the case. Meaning you can use it in exactly the same way as an internal drive. A backup drive is usually a zip drive designed to back up you hard drive and isn't used as a hard drive itself. It is usually in the form simalar to a floppy disk that the backup information is copied to. You can then use the backup disk and drive to reinstall all of your information from your original hard drive back to the hard drive in case of a virus or manually removing something that was needed for the system to run.
Why is it important to not store a backup of drive C on another partition on the same hard drive?
If you store your backup of your C:\ drive (which is usually where all your files, photos, etc are stored) on another (logical) partition on the same physical drive (C:\) and this is where you store your backup, if the drive should fail you would lose both the original files AND the backup as well. This is because they both reside on the SAME physical drive. Buy an inexpensive thumb drive or external hard drive and store your backups there. This way is the C:\ drive fails, you still have your backup files (on the external or flash (thumb) drive).
What is the process called that makes copies of your files to an external drive?
backup
What is a good storage and backup drive for a laptop?
If one is looking for a good storage backup drive for a laptop, there are many very good external drives that will provide this. Some of the higher rated ones are the Seagate Backup Plus and the Buffalo Ministation Thunderbolt.
What is a good data backup solution for the home?
Purchasing an external hard drive would be the best and the most inexpensive way to backup your home data. You can purchase an external hard drive for around $70
What is job cannot run because of invalid destination mean?
Do you have backup software installed that is mapped to an external hard drive? The software might be automatically trying to backup your files, but the external hard drive is not plugged in.
I did a system backup on to my external hard drive can retrieve Microsoft Office off of it?
No.
What precautions should be taken to protect Hard disk drive?
The key to protecting your data from a hard drive crash is to install and backup software solution and create a backup of your system to an external drive. NovaBACKUP Professional allows you to create an image backup, which in the event of a hard drive failure, will provide you with the ability to restore an entire drive to another computer.
What is a another name for a primary storage?
RAM
Whats the best thing to use to backup software?
I use and recommend Handy Backup, it's easy and reliable backup software for home use.
How much does back up software cost?
Backup software is not recommended since if your hard drive fails, your backup fails. It is best to get an external hard drive or to back up your computer in the cloud.
You want to create a backup of your C drive named as C Drive Backup and write the data to a new tape named C Drive?
ntbackup backup c:\ /j "C Drive Backup" /n "C Drive Backup Tape"
