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Boggin:
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Lady:
Talking about idiosyncrasies.............
But I could very well use my smiley there! Hahaha. Feeling VERY awkward indeed.
D: and E: are partitions of my internal HD where I keep my personal files and music files respectively. I have all these data backed up on my two external HDs F: and G: which are connected to my desktop pc permanently. Some smaller-sized important personal data like Word I also back-up sometimes on USB-sticks. And then I have my laptop now as well. Only when my house gets on fire I'm in trouble. :cheesy:
Do you use flash drives for backup as they are more reliable than external HDs? And do you mean USB-sticks or external SSDs? Probably USB-sticks for Wordpad documents. I need a lot of backup space due to my large amount of audio, video and music files. SSDs are still too expensive.
I'd like to secure my external HDs (and USB-sticks) with a password. I read about it online, there are various programmes for it but what would you advise?
Or do you want me to start a new topic about this?
Boggin:
As I don't have anything sensitive or of import to anyone else and no one else has access to my bits and pieces, I've never considered password protecting either my laptops or external HDDs.
I did a Google on how do I password protect external hdd and a number of links came up, but nothing seems to be free - although StorageCrypt may suit your needs if you want a paid for program. https://7labs.heypub.com/tips-tricks/lock-external-hard-drive-with-password.html
Some external HDDs include encryption from what I've read, but any form of security lock on the HDDs you will be using for the system images could hamper Windows accessing them if you ever needed to restore with them.
Yes, I do mean USB sticks as the Wordpad docs aren't that large, although prior to factory resetting I will back up my Downloads and Documents folders onto a 16GB stick.
As D: and E: are internal partitions, I would expect those to be also listed to include when using Windows Create a system image to give you a full image of your computer.
Lady:
Very good point there about access in case I need the SIB. (I did it right now, haha.) I forgot to mention it but data encryption programmes I ruled out earlier, as I read that those carry no small risk of permanently damaging one's data. I'll look into it later for my USB-sticks because recently I lost one with photos on it. Using one of these password programmes sounds alright.
Do you mean that you keep all your setup files that you download? For the sake of knowing which ones to download again? That might be a good idea. My solution to knowing my programmes is making a few screenshots of Programs and Features and saving those on my various backups.
See, now I get confused again with this SIB thing. If it's a snapshot of what's on the computer, doesn't it contain all the programmes that I downloaded? So why keep the download folder then? Does an SIB even copy all the tabs I have open in Firefox too e.g.?
Yes, D: and E: are listed in the SIB creating process but they only contain personal data, no system things (as far as I know). In fact, there's nothing more on them than there is on their backups on F: and G:. And they're large: 320 and 456 Gb resp. That's why I didn't include them in my SIB. It would only mean a double backup on the external HDs, wouldn't it?
No, there's one thing different. This file: 749dfcf3fecb51fcd07aca2b4b. I was told this was some malicious software removal tool by Microsoft and that I should leave it. Don't really know what to do with it, or does it do something on its own? What a stupid way of Microsoft to just install it like that. It just was there one day. Who of us non-IT people would know what that is. It actually looks like malware like this. :rolleyes:
Boggin:
There are some programs that don't actually install but run as a one off, so their Application stays in the Downloads folder, but there are others that have now been updated but I need to run the older version - the Downloads folder is also a handy place to keep trial versions of programs, so that once you have used them - you uninstall and then run it again from there which stops the clock on them.
Naughty I suppose, but why pay for a program that hardly gets used.
When you have valuable stuff like photos and music backed up, it's usually advocated that you have more than one back up should one of them fail.
External HDDs can fail or become corrupt just as internal ones can and I prefer to keep a separate back up of those folders should a system image fail, which has been known because of corruption.
I've only experienced one failure when I used DVDs and wanted to go back to the one before the last, but with an external HDD, you don't have that option.
Once you have created a system image you should restore with it to see if it works.
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