Backup

Ok, so I just recently bought a new portable hard drive (WD Elements), since my previous external hard drive failed. To prevent stuff like that I would like to backup my data regularly. Do you guys recommend any software, or online clouds that are free and easy to use?

I'm wanting to get a UPS to provide clean power and backup power to my new gaming PC that I will be building soon. I have looked online at power supply calculators and seen that my new gaming PC will use about 600 - 700 watts at full load, I also want to factor in my five monitors and speakers...

First I would like to say that this website and forums are awesome. You all have so much knowledge that you are willing to share. With your help I was able build a computer while blowing right past my budget by thousands.... I had a old HP PC and was going back to school. I already hated to even...

Hello, Windows 10 allows me to selet multiple internal and external drives for backup. After it backs up it's shown that it's backed up on the backup drive but file history only shows my C drive no other internal drives are visible in the file history. Is this the way it's intended for Windows...

Would there be any compatibility issues? My home UPS is 1500 va. Logically, I'm gonna connect my case and monitor to a power strip, which is connected to a power socket. In case of a power outage, power will be directly supplied from my home UPS. If a power strip would cause issues, what would...

Hello, I need someone who has an asrock x370 fatality gaming x and make a backup of the bios please send it to me, since my bios is brickeo and I need a backup because the one that is downloaded from the official page is not the same

I currently have around 12TB of data (pictures) spread across several external drives and one drive being in Raid 1 and I'm trying to clean the mess I've made now. So I recently purchased two 24TB G-RAID drives because I wanted to simplify how I store my pictures with the added redundancy...

I am building a new computer very soon, and have 2 things I want to accomplish: I would like to use an SSD (only) as the main drive, with everything on the SSD. This is an upgrade from the current HDD-only computer. I would like to not lose any data if the SSD fails. Cloning the SSD to a...

Hi there, I was attempting to perform a clean install of Windows 10 on a family member's computer, something I've done easily in the past. I was making sure to backup on the local files, using the family member's OneDrive account. Unfortunately, I didn't check to make sure the files backed up...

Hi Can it be dun ? I hate waiting for hole new back up's. Most of my storage space is video's. Can video's be compressed without damaging the original file's ? Can 3T bites of assorted video file formats be compressed to 1.5T bites or more like 2T bites ?

Long story short, I have a Windows 10 laptop where BitLocker was turned on with out my knowledge (again, long story) and now I cannot get into the OS. I do have a “recovery key id” but I guess I also need an additional “recovery key” which I cannot find right now. This is an older laptop that...

Hi, i backup a partition to an ssd and when i tried to recover the files it doesn't recognize the ssd.What is the problem? Regards, Mpampis

Hello all! I have an activated copy of Windows 10 on my main PC. However, I will be moving and will be without that computer for up to 2 months. I want to clone the OS (Win10 plus all my apps and settings) to a laptop in the meantime. There might be a bit of an overlap, meaning I would have...

Please help me i can't find a solution it's suicidal 😭 😭 note my desktop is running on windows 7(i don't use it much and it has not been updated since ages) I switched on my desktop after 5-6 months and found that my system was attacked by ransomware virus most of my files pictures documents...

Hi there, I am setting up a external backup drive for m laptop. I do not require a backup of the windows disk image, just a few folders. I am wondering if there is a function in windows or an app that will detect whenever the backup external drive is plugged in and compare the contents of the...

Firstly I apologize for my bad English. I am facing a problem. My keyboard and internet start lagging at the same time everyday. This happens everyday exactly at 14:43 and last till around 17:00.Sometimes this happens twice a day. First at around 11 and then again at 14:43. During this period...

Long story short. Seemingly at random my windows 10 PC decides to detect or not detect my WD 8TB shucked easystore white drive after either initial boot up or from sleep mode. Sometimes it does detect it, sometimes it does not. I'll restart the PC many times, sometimes it will take 5 or 10...

Hello I have a PC running Windows 7 SP1 and have been experiencing wildly varying USB transfer speeds to an external drive. I am using the same external drive attached to the same USB2 port and am copying the same file to the drive. Sometimes the transfer speed is 6MB/sec and on other...

I have a weird problem that I've been trying to solve for a long time. I am beginning to think there is something really wrong with my motherboard or something else. My budget setup is: Ryzen 5 2400G ASUS B350 TUF motherboard 2 x 8 gb Corsair CMK16GX4M2A2666C16 Seasonic 620W PSU Windows 10 Pro...

I ran the heaven benchmark on 1620 on the core and 1100 on the memory and in overwatch I was able to get the same speeds but in fortnite, in the lobby i get 1500-1600Mhz on the core but in an actual game i get 800-1000 with 45-70% util and temp never goes above 54C. Anyone have the same issue or...