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Re: Backing Up My Files?

Posted By: Michelle Nightengale <Director@NOSPAMeCommunicationsInstitute.com>
Sunday, 20 August 2006, at 3:28 p.m.

In Response To: Backing Up My Files? (Michelle Nightengale)

Thanks for all the of the input guys! I appreciate it.

Ok, let me explain what brought this on: My sister mentioned to me recently that her hard drive crashed when her hubby turned the computer on. They use their computer for convenience, e-mailing friends and family, etc. It was annoying and frustrating, but otherwise, no big deal.

In my case, I'd suffer a lot more. I have a bunch of electronic products on my hardrive that I've paid good money for. These are a priority for me to save.

And as I said, I'm a writer, so I need to be able to save all of my work. Because I'm starting a freelance writing business, it's not only the thing to do for ME, it's crucial for the success of my business. If I lose the documents I'm working on, it would be distrastrous from a business standpoint.

Ok, so now I know I have the wrong kind of CDs. So as a workaround for now, I'll probably select JUST the files that are crucial for me to save: the stuff I've bought and my own documents I'm writing, probably on different disks.

But from what you all say, I probably need to buy an external hard drive. And the One Touch method of backup sounds appealing to me. What I need to back up every day though are the documents I'm writing. I try to write every day, even if it's only a little bit. That's probably the only thing that needs to be backed up on a daily basis though.

So if I want to buy an external hard drive, how do I do that? Forgive my ignorance... I bought a Dell computer about 3 years ago and it's worked very well for me. But I have no idea how big the hard drive is or how much space I have left. (Does anyone know where I can look for that information on my computer?)

Is there a hard drive I can buy that I can plug into a port on my current hard drive and do a backup without actually pulling apart the casing on my tower and messing around in there?

(Maybe I ought to look around for a local computer geek and have them help me.)

Thanks for all of your help!

Sincerely,
Michelle

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