Jodie Posted April 4, 2017 Share Posted April 4, 2017 Hi Brian, I need to backup an eternal hard drive but thought I'd better ask first if there is a "safest" way of doing it? I'm worried simply copying and pasting might hurt the existing one! thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Posted April 4, 2017 Share Posted April 4, 2017 Copying and pasting is fine. Cutting or Moving and pasting has risks. If something goes wrong during a copy and paste, just simply start over. If you are moving files and something goes wrong, it could result in lost files. Trust me. It happened once in my last 24+ years as a IT a professional. Of course the files that were lost, couldn't be recovered or duplicated. Learned a valuable lesson that day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jodie Posted April 5, 2017 Author Share Posted April 5, 2017 excellent thank you!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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