How to Backup a Computer Hard Drive

Apple iPod (Media Player)

Portable media player

If you use a portable media player that can hold data, such as the mega-popular iPods from Apple (www.apple.com; from $49), you can also use these devices as a storage solution too. Bear in mind, though: Before you copy the contents of your hard drive over via a USB cable, you may need to manually allow your media player to hold files by clicking a box in its setup software (and allocating how much space you want for files). The only issue, of course, is if you lose the media player, as your (potentially sensitive) documents could fall into the wrong hands.


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  1. ando at 7:28pm 7th January 2010 i like all the suggestions about baking up data in a pc
  2. R Mathur at 10:45am 17th November 2009 All above are great including online storage, but not unless best practices and internal systems to backup are in place properly.
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