Tuesday, March 1, 2011

How to Back Up Your Computer Hard Drive

If your computer has ever suffered a computer virus or crashed unexpectedly, you may understand the importance of backing up your important computer data. If you have never performed this task, then read on to learn how to back up your computer hard drive. You will learn what the three things that you need to do to ensure that you never lose data again.

This How-To guide will show you how to use online backup and backup software to protect your data. This guide is intended for home users as well as small and medium sized businesses that do not have a dedicated IT department. Losing the data on your personal or business computer can be costly and can result in downtime for the company. Backing up that data will save the user unnecessary aggravation. This backup procedure will use free software wherever possible and strive to create a process that is easy to maintain.

The first step will illustrate how to create a clean starting point of your operating system. The second step shows how to backup your files locally onto a large USB disk drive. Finally, the last step makes sure important files are backed up online or on compact discs.

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