systme backup??? How did you back up the system...cd or flash drive What is falsh drive???
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A flash drive usually means an USB flash drive, but an USB's capacity is not big enough for backing-up. I'd recommend an external HDD (hard disk drive), for example I have this one: Western Digital My Book Essential 500 GB USB 2.0 Desktop External Hard Drive WDBAAF5000EBK-NESN. I backup my documents, pictures to it, and it's also great for storing films, tv-shows, music etc.
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Likely it is FAT32, or maybe NTFS. Go here, and just format to FAT. http://download.cnet.com/USB-Disk-Storage-Format-Tool/3000-2094_4-75984825.html Use caution you are formatting the correct drive letter, or you may have disastrous results, by accidentally formatting an external drive, or SD Card.
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When you mention over 1 million files I don't think you wold need to back these up on a regular basis. In this case it is best to use software that will only backup files that have changed since the last backup. The initial backup will take quite awhile to perform but any subsequent backups should be quick. So, as mentioned here, an external USB drive can be connected to the WD My Book and backed up. If you provide more details it would help.
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Need to install on a back up hard drive, or a partitioned drive off the C: drive. The key is to install from that drive. It does not like being installed just to the C: Drive I have a Toshiba backup drive. I copied all the programs from the D: drive the DVD or CD to the backup drive. Then I installed from that drive. As long as I have that backup dive attached to the USB port, I do not need the DVD/CD to run the game
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Usually you don't need to back up your entire HDD, just the data and usually just the My Documents folder. And perhaps some other areas that you save data to. You can either use a backup program or just plug it in and copy/paste like you would any other location on your PC, you can also keep the flash drive plugged in and share it on your network as network storage.
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As commenter Super Geek suggests, if you're using a PC, then you will need to reformat it as Fat32. If you have any data on it, you will need to back it up elsewhere in order to reformat the drive for PC.
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A cable that goes in the USB port is included with the unit. There also is a pamphlet that has some instructions included. But once you plug in the unit, just follow the directions on the screen. If you want to just do a entire backup of your system, let the unit do its thing. It's that simple.
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Not under the supported systems. But most likely you will have to change to FAT32 in order to backup.
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I wish I knew. I know cars!! If my computer were a car I could make it sing!!! I just went with the 2TB to make sure I could back up everything; including the o/sys. Sorry. I guess in my gut I felt that the C-2 was what I needed.
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That's exactly how I'm using the drive. I do a scheduled backup of changes to specific dirs to the drive using USB.
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Like most external USB drives, I'd not rely on it for long-term backups over one year. Augment it with a cloud product that is acceptable for the type of data being backed up (i.e. personal, confidential, commercial, etc.). In my experience, none of the disks used in these devices are high-grade, and in commercial applications, we'll go to a NAS with RAID.
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At this moment I am pulling data off an external USB drive that appeared to be totally dead. Clack, click, whiirrrrrrrr and never came online. I froze it. Not kidding: http://www.emergingtechs.com/posts/put-your-hard-drive-in-the-freezer-to-recover-data/ Mine works for about 1/2hr until the drive warms up again, then back into the freezer. Given this scenario it makes sense to know what is critical, get it first, and get the non-essential stuff later. All my important stuff is already recovered and now I'm copying over 40GB of "nice to have" stuff. As soon as this process is over I'm going to improve my backup scenario!
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WD comes with Windows backup software. It's somewhat rudimentary but it works.
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I think you will see in the user product reviews that the automatic backup software is clunky. I suggest trying the freeware Leo-Backup. http://www.leo-backup.com/
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There was software included, presumably a backup program. I formatted the disk and use time machine to do my backups.
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Yes, you can back up the applications, but why would you want to do that if you have the original software. Even if you do back up an application like MS Office you will probably have to reinstall it. I don't think it will run from the Seagate drive. At least, that's my understanding.
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geez you all are so ignorant. the actual space is 64GB but a filesystem is needed to keep track of the files on the disk. how else do you expect it to work without a filesystem?