The files stored on the external HDD will not be deleted when using the Norton 360 backup.
To put it briefly, the only difference between these two applications is the amount of the online storage space included in package price. Standard Norton 360 3.0 comes with 2GB of online storage you can use to backup your files, whereas Norton 360 Version 3.0 Premier Edition includes 25GB of online space available for your backup data. Files are stored on a remote server at the Symantec datacentre.
It'll send it to something known as the 'Recycle Bin' where it is stored until you delete it permenantly off your computer. If it's deleted off a USB/external drive, then it's put into a cache, which is inaccessable by a regular user and requires a program to retrieve it.
in a tar format
system.dat or restore.sys
"There are always pros and cons to every type of backup system available. Archiving software is the better way to go if the archives are stored online. This reduces the risk of losing your data due to a faulty external hard drive. Also, most archiving software that stores data online have redundant backup systems in place."
A Backup
I think its just deleted.
Deleted messages are stored for a time in the Trash folder until that folder is cleared ("emptied"). Messages deleted from the Trash folder can't be recovered.
It depends where the messages are stored ! If they're stored on the phone company's server - they will be deleted once the account is closed. If they're stored in the handset's memory - they'll still be available to be read - unless they were stored on the old SIM card.
true
making a backup
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).