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What's a good external hard drive to backup a Windows 10 Home edition computer?
    #23728915 - 10/11/16 05:28 PM (7 years, 4 months ago)

I did some quick research for an external hard drive but it seems a lottt of them have issues with Windows 10.

Has anybody here used an external hard drive to successfully back up their Windows 10 computer? 

Any advice or thoughts please post here.


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Re: What's a good external hard drive to backup a Windows 10 Home edition computer? [Re: lifeiswhatyoumake] * 1
    #23728944 - 10/11/16 05:37 PM (7 years, 4 months ago)

Go with the tire USB.


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Re: What's a good external hard drive to backup a Windows 10 Home edition computer? [Re: lifeiswhatyoumake] * 1
    #23728955 - 10/11/16 05:40 PM (7 years, 4 months ago)

Backing up your copy is not going to be hard drive specific. As long as it's a quality drive you'll be fine. Seagate or Western Digital will do a okay.

If you're trying to run your OS off an external drive, you'll want an external drive with a SATA out port. USB 3 is fast enough to run some distros of Linux, but you don't want to fuck with running a fully functioning windows OS on it. Though it's been a couple years since I've tried.

If you're trying to do the latter, what's the ultimate purpose?

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Re: What's a good external hard drive to backup a Windows 10 Home edition computer? [Re: lifeiswhatyoumake]
    #23729197 - 10/11/16 07:04 PM (7 years, 4 months ago)

what do you want to do? Backing up files, any hard drive will work. If you want to back up your operating system and then reinstall it, it doesn't work that way, better off looking for a windows 10 rom on microsoft or piratebay, whichever is easier.

You can do drive cloning where you make an image of hard drive/ssd a and then copy it to hard drive/ssd b, the idea being that you unplug the drive you were using for your os, plug in the new drive, tell the bios that the new drive is the one you want to boot from and then it goes. Makes upgrading to an ssd easier if you would rather do that then reinstall your operating system.


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Re: What's a good external hard drive to backup a Windows 10 Home edition computer? [Re: Visionary Tools]
    #23729344 - 10/11/16 08:04 PM (7 years, 4 months ago)

If you're trying to carry a hard drive with you that will carry a copy of your OS so that you can plug it in any computer, keep in mind that Windows 10 registers to the motherboard of a computer rather than registering the same ways old versions of the OS would. I think this would render an individual installation of Windows 10 useless in any computer system it wasn't originally installed on, though I might be wrong.

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Re: What's a good external hard drive to backup a Windows 10 Home edition computer? [Re: Visionary Tools]
    #23729400 - 10/11/16 08:24 PM (7 years, 4 months ago)

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Visionary Tools said:
what do you want to do?





I want to backup the current image of my computer, in case I get a nasty virus one day that I can't remove.



Quote:

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Backing up files, any hard drive will work. If you want to back up your operating system and then reinstall it, it doesn't work that way, better off looking for a windows 10 rom on microsoft or piratebay, whichever is easier.





Is backing up an OS and reinstalling it the same as saving the image and reloading that image?



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You can do drive cloning where you make an image of hard drive/ssd a and then copy it to hard drive/ssd b, the idea being that you unplug the drive you were using for your os, plug in the new drive, tell the bios that the new drive is the one you want to boot from and then it goes. Makes upgrading to an ssd easier if you would rather do that then reinstall your operating system.




If I did this then why would I want to unplug the drive I was using for my OS originally?  Why not keep using that drive and just use the second drive as backup if the original drive gets a deadly virus?


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Re: What's a good external hard drive to backup a Windows 10 Home edition computer? [Re: PatrickKn]
    #23729406 - 10/11/16 08:25 PM (7 years, 4 months ago)

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Backing up your copy is not going to be hard drive specific. As long as it's a quality drive you'll be fine. Seagate or Western Digital will do a okay.

If you're trying to run your OS off an external drive, you'll want an external drive with a SATA out port. USB 3 is fast enough to run some distros of Linux, but you don't want to fuck with running a fully functioning windows OS on it. Though it's been a couple years since I've tried.

If you're trying to do the latter, what's the ultimate purpose?





I'm not trying to run my OS off an external hard drive.
I just want to save the image of my computer in case I get a bad virus, so I can revert the computer back to its original, healthy state.


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Re: What's a good external hard drive to backup a Windows 10 Home edition computer? [Re: lifeiswhatyoumake]
    #23729423 - 10/11/16 08:31 PM (7 years, 4 months ago)


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