hard drive backup for your laptop
Top tip for any laptop with a hard drive:
- Buy a bigger harddrive, same interface. (I have a 500GB in my little EeePc, with G-force protection... if it falls more than 22 cm's it will park the harddrive so it won't get ruined in the fall of your laptop onto the ground, when running)
- Buy a HD-casing with USB interface, 6 USD on dealextreme.com. free shipping.
- Clean up the drive in your laptop, but leave essential software on it. (don't forget temp-folders, waste bin, download folder, restore points, etc.
- Put new drive into your laptop, and install your windows or whatever, mapsource, skype, etc. onto the new drive.
- Put 'old' drive in the USB-casing, and use it for backups.
In case your 'new' harddrive stops working in your laptop (which is the most vulnerable part), you can simply put your backup-drive in it and start up on windows (or linux, or whatever) and get online to skype with your mom!
p.s. at your own risk, but on a lot of laptops this is very simple to do yourself.
Be aware, there are different interfaces for the drivesdepending on the age of your machine; buy the one matching your laptop an the same USB-casing! SATA is the most common.
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