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Irishlass
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Member since 5/05 2961 total posts
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Lisa
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External Hard Drive?
Does anyone use an external hard drive? Or how do you back up your PC? I have hundreds of photos that I have never backed up & I need to do it. TIA!
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Candy Girl
Candy girl- you are so sweet!
Member since 11/07 6349 total posts
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erin
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Re: External Hard Drive?
I would love some feedback on this as well! Thanks for posting!
I bumped a fairly recent post about this for us!
Message edited 5/24/2009 7:40:52 PM.
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| Posted 5/24/09 7:39 PM |
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BabyBoy
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Tom
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Re: External Hard Drive?
a good deal on officemax right now
http://www.officemax.com/technology/drives-memory-storage/hard-drives-usb-drives/external-hard-drives/product-prod1790164#homepage?cm_ven=Performics&cm_cat=**Slick%20Deals**&cm_pla=Primary&cm_ite=Primary&affcode=performics&siteID=k1971&mid=u354471t0f0fp21075c0s158
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| Posted 5/24/09 8:40 PM |
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GoldenRod
10 years on LIF!
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Shawn
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Re: External Hard Drive?
I have an external drive at home and at work. I use Microsoft's SyncToy
It's free, and it's an easy way to keep your C: drive and your external drive in sync. I have it set up to make sure both drives are the same (it copies in both directions), or you can have it only copy from your C: to your external, etc. It only copies the files that have changed, so after the first time through, it goes really quick.
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| Posted 5/24/09 9:48 PM |
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wannabemom
look who's freshly baked!
Member since 12/07 7364 total posts
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Re: External Hard Drive?
oh shoot.... definitely buy TWO.... I would never trust one or even 2 drives to store priceless family photos....
I have a maxtor one touch (several years old), and a new western digital. the western digital is GREAT. It's tiny, and fits into the side pocket of my laptop bag.
Anyone reading this.... please back up all of your stuff! you'll regret it someday if you don't 
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| Posted 5/24/09 11:23 PM |
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MissJones
I need a nap!
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Re: External Hard Drive?
I back up pix onto DVD's AND we have a My Book. I think I back up pictures every 3 months or so. I agree with a PP about having 2 kinds of back up.
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| Posted 5/25/09 8:39 AM |
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Christine
2nd verse same as the 1st
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Re: External Hard Drive?
Posted by wannabemom
oh shoot.... definitely buy TWO.... I would never trust one or even 2 drives to store priceless family photos....
I have a maxtor one touch (several years old), and a new western digital. the western digital is GREAT. It's tiny, and fits into the side pocket of my laptop bag.
Anyone reading this.... please back up all of your stuff! you'll regret it someday if you don't
ITA!!!!!!!!!!!! My external drive just failed - I am crossing everything for data recovery.
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| Posted 5/25/09 8:43 AM |
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GoldenRod
10 years on LIF!
Member since 11/06 26792 total posts
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Shawn
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Re: External Hard Drive?
Posted by Christine
Posted by wannabemom
oh shoot.... definitely buy TWO.... I would never trust one or even 2 drives to store priceless family photos....
I have a maxtor one touch (several years old), and a new western digital. the western digital is GREAT. It's tiny, and fits into the side pocket of my laptop bag.
Anyone reading this.... please back up all of your stuff! you'll regret it someday if you don't
ITA!!!!!!!!!!!! My external drive just failed - I am crossing everything for data recovery.
I use that SyncToy tool I mentioned to sync all my photos among my internal drive at home, my external at home, my laptop, my internal at work and my external at work.... I work in IT, so I definitely don't trust hard drives... if I lose all 5 copies, I'm assuming I have bigger things to worry about...  
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| Posted 5/25/09 10:40 AM |
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Christine
2nd verse same as the 1st
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Re: External Hard Drive?
Posted by GoldenRod
Posted by Christine
Posted by wannabemom
oh shoot.... definitely buy TWO.... I would never trust one or even 2 drives to store priceless family photos....
I have a maxtor one touch (several years old), and a new western digital. the western digital is GREAT. It's tiny, and fits into the side pocket of my laptop bag.
Anyone reading this.... please back up all of your stuff! you'll regret it someday if you don't
ITA!!!!!!!!!!!! My external drive just failed - I am crossing everything for data recovery.
I use that SyncToy tool I mentioned to sync all my photos among my internal drive at home, my external at home, my laptop, my internal at work and my external at work.... I work in IT, so I definitely don't trust hard drives... if I lose all 5 copies, I'm assuming I have bigger things to worry about...
Like a nuclear fall out.
I normally have them in atleast two places but I was half way through the transfer process. I didn't think they would be at risk for a few hours. Wrong. 
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| Posted 5/25/09 1:04 PM |
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