Backup to USB Flash Drive

by on Apr 10, 2006 | 2 comments

Everyone probably knows you should regularly backup your work in case your hard drive fails. It is recommended you back up to a different hard drive or device so if your primary drive fails, you don’t loose all your data.

If you don’t have a second internal hard drive or an external hard drive, consider using a USB flash drive. They are ultra cheap and very reliable as there are no moving parts. They will not hold as much as a hard drive, so don’t count on backing up your music collection, but you would be surprised how much data (such as resumes and school work) you can fit on a 512 MB drive.

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  • Clifton Anderson

    I would like to transfer my monthly PC Magazines to my Flashdrive. My Operating System is Windows Vista Home Premium. I have surfed the web, but have not found any detailed, line by line instructions on how to accomplish this.
    Would anyone at your organization have any expertise on how I can accomplish this ? Thanks.

    Clifton

  • Cory

    I think that scanning in your paper mags is technically not legal(copyright and all), but I’d say that it wouldn’t be very difficult to do. Once they are in a file format on your HD, copy it to the flash drive… Now while it is possible to do this, why would you want to? Aren’t most of these articles archived online already?

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