External drives aren't as reliable as internal drives. External drives can be damaged by movements and impacts.
Buy two first grade 3.5" HDDs. (like WD Gold or HGST)
One you install inside of your desktop and keep permanently "alive" as a data drive.
The second you install inside of your desktop but keep it "detached" (remove the SATA or power cable or simply set the SATA port as disabled). This prevents a malware to damage your backups.
Regularly (I do it once a week) you "attach" the backup drive and run a backup software. The backup drive should be bigger than the data drive so it can store the data drive and the Windows drive backups.
Lessoned learned. reformatted the problem drive and using the new drive I bought to backup with redundancy files as well backing up all my files.
I'm having a hard time finding which USB ports on my laptop and its dock are v3 or v2 (or less possibly), but when I tried two different ports (I think one is v3), they both seemed to transfer at about 150KBps... which seems slow even for USB v2.
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Just clean install my laptop. After windows successfully installed, as usual i connect to internet, format and give name to D drive in Disk Management. After couple of minutes i plug my external hard drive to copy paste my backup to laptop and...
I would like to set up a recovery disc on a partition of my hard drive. I've already made the partition.
1. Is this something I should do? Or should I just go buy a USB drive?
2. If so, how?
I am new to the forum. I'm not sure if this is the right place to post my question, but hoping someone here can direct me or might know.
I purchased a 1TB hard drive to place media files on it so that I could plug it into my DVD player which has...
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I am using am iMac with Bootcamp running Win 7. I have just upgraded to Win 10 with no problems. Except I can now not read my 2 x WD USB external drives. I am getting "the parameter is incorrect" error. In disk management it says the...