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Originally Posted by Schumi View Post
Move all your important, must have stuff onto an external hard drive. All the rest of the programs just let go. All that software people pay for backs up everything, but it's not always that easy, especially when you have a lot of strange programs installed. I've gone through several bad hard drive failures where I just simply lost my stuff, and after about a month of rebuilding, I'm usually happier as I have a nice fresh install of windows and less junk.

I just copy my Documents folder and any zip files or program installers I may need, let the rest burn.
This is why I suggested SC. It only 'copies' and 'pastes' the files you select. Just like you would do by hand. The other benefit, is that if things are 'backed up' to an external drive, you could take the drive with you and the data is fully readable.

At $30, it's not bad for simple on site backups.

Anyway, everyone just needs to backup period. However it is accomplished.
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