No. If the hard disk crashes you will lose both the original and backup data. It is best to backup to separate disk for redundancy purposes.
Hard Drive - album - was created in 2008.
It is a good idea to regularly back up important files and defragment your hard drive. It will make it last longer
Possibly with another Hard drive or with a good amount of double sided dual Layer DVD's. Depending on the size of the hard drive. basically you use a backup program.
If the Hard drive is IDE (40 pins on the back) you would configure the primary hard drive as Master and secondary hard drive as Slave using the jumpers on the back of the hard drive.
The internal Hard Drive in a computer has an average life span of 10 years. If a computer is nearing this age it is a good idea to have an external hard drive to back up your files in case of a crash.
backing up an entire hard drive is difficult...so much data to back up...
It is not hard to recover your hard drive if you have a back up to your files. If you are willing to spend money you can fix your hard drive by visiting Geek Squad.
You get another memory storage device, such as an external hard drive, and you copy everything on your hard drive onto the external hard drive, and keep it safe. That way, if your hard drive crashes, then you can take it out, and plug your external hard drive in, and work from that.
Back up hard drive
You can use your laptop to back uup your hard drive but your USB is not the thing getting backed up.
If a hard drive is clicking then a person should make a decision to try and back up or recover any files on the hard drive. Files on the hard drive can be recovered by using professional hard drive recovery systems.
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