As an aside, I Winter near you in St Pete.Īm I right to assume Macrium would be installed on the back-up drive? Otherwise, how would you be able to restore to the new hard drive? I find most of them to be quite informative. You don’t necessarily need to do it every night, but for me I’ve just made it part of my nightly routine so I never have to worry about losing anything important.įirst of all, I want to thank you for your weekly emails.
But once it’s set up, backing up your computer is easy – you just plug in the portable drive at night, then the next morning you check the date and unplug it. Setting up Macrium Reflect the first time – getting it configured to do what we need it to do – is a little tricky and there are a few steps involved.
Macrium has saved me twice, and it has saved my clients countless times. It’s the quickest way for your computer to be back up and running after a hard drive failure.
Within an hour or two, everything is back like it was before the problem. This way, if your drive fails, we can just replace the bad one with a new (empty) drive, and restore the last backup. This is the software I use to back up everything on the computer – not just your important files and folders, but all your programs as well. Then I go an download the software called Macrium Reflect. This wipes everything from that drive, including the software that came with it, so that we’re starting with a completely empty drive. When I’m setting up a new portable drive for an ongoing regular backup, the first thing I do is this: format the drive. How bad would that be – you could be in a situation where you need the data from that drive, but you can’t get to it. With some of those programs there is a password created at the time of the installation, and if you don’t know it or forget it, that drive can become no longer usable. Most drives like this do come with their own software, but when I set up a backup, I never use that software. Then a window pops up asking them to run a program that came already on the drive, and they just run it. What a lot of people do is just take it out of the package, and plug it in to their computer. Do you know the first thing you should do with it? You just got a brand new portable/external drive to back up your important computer files.
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