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Summary: Backup a computer hard drive by purchasing an external hard drive, connecting it to the computer and then dragging and dropping files over to the external drive. Avoid trying to copy large amounts of data from a hard drive onto a CD or floppy disk with advice from a software developer in this free video on computer hard drives.
Dave Andrews is a software developer with a business and Web site selling programs and other computer services in Franklin, Tenn. Having worked in the IT industry for more than 8...read more
"Hi, my name is Dave Andrews. Today I'm going to show you how to back up a hard drive. Let's go to our computer and just for the sake of demonstration, let's imagine that I had some very important files on my desktop. Let's say I have my budget here. I have, or let's say, a customer list, if I'm running a business. Now I could have, you know, thousands of documents here, I'm just going to do these two for demonstration. We want to back up these files to an external media and what I'm using is an external hard drive that you can purchase at, you know, just about any computer store. You know, they range from fifty to a hundred dollars. And I'm going to open up my computer and as you can see here, I have my external hard drive here, which is, you know, this one I've only a partition to be 10 gigabytes. But I can open that up and I basically just want to copy these files over to that hard drive. Now keep that window open. I grab these files and I just drag them over. And this is copying them to my external media and as you can see, this is a whole lot easier than using, you know, burn them to a CD or a floppy disk or something like that. Just use an external hard drive, it's as simple as copy and paste and you're done. I would continue this process for all of my other important documents in music and photos that I had to back up; simply drag them over to my external media. My name is Dave Andrews and I've just showed you how to back up a hard drive."
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