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| Thread ID: 123395 | 2012-02-22 01:28:00 | A warning: USB HD's and bundled backup software | 1101 (13337) | Press F1 |
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| 1260666 | 2012-02-22 01:28:00 | A warning: USB HD's and bundled backup software Simple. Its possibly crap Just what Ive seen this week with 3 different terrible backup software(s) unless a you are 100% sure it will work.... Dont use the bundled backup software that comes on USB HD's, & trys to autorun/install when you connect the USB drive It may not be 100% Vista Win7 compatable (even on a new USB Drive) It may not backup all your data, just what the software thinks you need. It may leave out all you docs etc It also may not backup (say)MYOB or other data that isnt saved under docs & settings/user folders You may not actually be able to restore from backup, that may simply not work as expected You probhably will not be able to pick individual files to recover from a image backup. (Good programs do support this) Restoring from image will wipe the HD & leave it not booting-being non Win7 compatable . (people may not realise what an image restore does) It may decide to do backup while you are trying to use the PC, even though the settings tell it not to. This will slow the PC to a grinding halt. It may just backup to the internal HD, making a 40G file & leaving you with almost no free HD space (are you listening Norton):yuck::yuck: well, thats todays rant over |
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| 1260667 | 2012-02-22 01:44:00 | Thats the first thing I normally remove from drives, the included software, rather use stuff I know works, tried and true. | wainuitech (129) | ||
| 1260668 | 2012-02-22 02:00:00 | I usually reformat them myself so the software dissappears before I ever try it. Very often they come preformatted as FAT32 because it's the most widely compatible but I prefer NTFS as I occasionally deal with some very large files (one was over 16G) and FAT32 has a max file size limitation of 2 or 4GB or something (I forget). | dugimodo (138) | ||
| 1260669 | 2012-02-22 02:01:00 | I don't bother with 3rd party backup apps anyway, the built-in Windows 7 one is good enough. | pcuser42 (130) | ||
| 1260670 | 2012-02-22 03:16:00 | I usually reformat them myself so the software dissappears before I ever try it. Very often they come preformatted as FAT32 because it's the most widely compatible but I prefer NTFS as I occasionally deal with some very large files (one was over 16G) and FAT32 has a max file size limitation of 2 or 4GB or something (I forget). It's 4GB. |
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