General How Do You Back Up Your Computer?

[Carmo]

G'day,
I've learned two valuable lessons from my recent encounter with the Blue Screen of Death; can you assist myself or others further?

Cheers, Carmo.

 

[F4celess]

Video being private doesn't help.
Generally, get a spacious external hard drive, and depending on how you use your PC, there is a few ways of doing it;
- If you just use the default user storage folders for everything (my documents, photos, videos etc), you can go into Computer > (C drive > Users > drag the entire folder with your username on it to the external hard drive.
- Let Windows do backup for you, the wizard will tell you what you need to know, just search for "backup" in the start menu.
- Get a software to do it for you, can be found bundled with hard drives sometimes. Or found online, do some research, as I don't do this myself.
- If you have 2 drives in your PC, like a (D, manually transfer files to external drive.
- (advanced) If you have a desktop, you could set up a RAID controller that mirrors whatever is present on one drive to another as you go. Requires you to do some tricky stuff, not recommended if you have to ask about tips online.

There is plenty of resources on backing up out there. Google it.

- F4celess