Re: Maxtor One-Touch external harddrive

Helen, you are little gem. I never thought about dragging my files across to
the external drive.
I think my senior moments all happened at once at some stage and left me
completely blank about doing that - I do that when copying something for my
friends onto a CD so it should have logically been the same for the Maxtor..

Problem solved.

Thank you so much.

Di
Very gratefully dragging and dropping.
"Helen Castle" <helenlcastle@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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If it is an external hard disk drive it should work like an internal hard
disk drive

You store stuff on the internal drives - you can store stuff on the
external drives - it doesnt have to be a backup, it can be a copy.

That way you dont have to use backup software just use File, Save As. and
then make sure you revert to your main file before you do more work.

Or just use Windows Explorer to copy from internal drive to external
drive.

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"DiMa" <sascar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Thank you Helen, I wish I was a bit more knowledgeable.

"Helen Castle" <helenlcastle@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Does you computer recognise that there is a drive attached when you plug
it in?

If it does press F1 when at the desktop, do a search on backup and read
how to use Windows backup to backup to the drive

But frankly I have never backed anything up in 19 years of using
computers - I keep a copy of everything important in the native format
that it was created in and then in an exported format of some sort plus
a lot of my important stuff is on websites - so that if I have to I can
recreate my files all over again very easily - backups only work while
you have the program that you used to backup.

I generally have a major rebuild every 2 years, with minor reformats in
between and I have never lost anything important - sometimes I forget
minor stuff that doesnt matter but I have had some files since Windows
3.1 and they are still readable. If the had been backed up files I
wouldnt be able to access them by now.

If you copy stuff you can compress into a zip file - right click, sent
to zip (compressed) file. copy to Maxtor.

Or use Windows Explorer to copy and paste to the Maxtor drive.

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"DiMa" <sascar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Thank you to all the guys who have responded to my post.

I don't know what other software to install on the drive - where do I
get it from?
I am not technically minded but not stupid either so be gentle with me
please.

Di
"DiMa" <sascar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hi all,

Does anyone know if there is a support group for the above.

I have not been able to master it as yet and need some help. Senior
moments are always getting in the way and I end up getting the backup
fail notice.

Thanks,
Di







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