The Mother Fucker 26 Posted February 8, 2020 Share Posted February 8, 2020 My old 250GB HDD I purchased early-mid 2000s is starting to make the dreaded clicking sounds. I later checked This PC and I see the drive missing. Oh shit. Power the system off, wait a few minutes, turn PC back on, login and I see the drive is there again. This drive is about to be gone for good. Don't know why I procrastinated on backing up this drive. I have so many files that date back to early 2000s on it that I don't want gone, from old Linux distro purchases, to Mugen sprites, MAME roms, to early TV programming captures, and of course porn. This little tip from Linus about back up to an image is good advice Found this software that is free to use that does the job. https://www.ubackup.com/free-backup-software.html I'm backing whatever I can to an external 3TB I had that was doing nothing. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
SheepKilla 473 Posted February 8, 2020 Share Posted February 8, 2020 never use the word "forumite" 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
The Mother Fucker 26 Posted February 8, 2020 Author Share Posted February 8, 2020 8 minutes ago, SheepKilla said: never use the word "forumite" whatever, backup your data. that app I link also lets you back up by folder to image, which is actually better than trying to do the entire drive to an image like Linus suggested. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Remij 4,670 Posted February 8, 2020 Share Posted February 8, 2020 (edited) I always have a huge backup drive with all my shit that I want to keep. Local drive for Windows + downloads from the net. A separate SSD with Steam, Origin, Epic, ect ect A separate SSD with all my emulation stuff. And a huge 4TB backup drive of everything I want to keep a copy of. So I usually always have 2 copies of everything at least. The nice thing about Steam is that it's portable. I can format the local drive and reinstall windows and simply run Steam again from that drive and it's like nothing ever happened. All games are still installed and good to go.. all the games I've added are still there, all the custom artworks and everything. I also have my Steam userdata folder backed up again on my 4TB drive so that there's no chance of me having to re-add all those "non steam games" to Steam again. Having my emulation drive separate means that even if I wanted to format my Steam drive and reinstall Steam, all the filepaths for the emulated games I've added will always stay the same.. which means they all are good to go as well. Edited February 8, 2020 by Remij_ 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
JonDnD 2,608 Posted February 8, 2020 Share Posted February 8, 2020 I don't have anything to backup besides pictures. Which I copy to a new device whenever I get one. Games who cares you can download those again, and how many games do you have to have over the span of years? I guess it would be a bigger issue to those that actually have important things on their hdds. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Twinblade★ 3,893 Posted February 8, 2020 Share Posted February 8, 2020 Y'all need cloud storage. I have most of my important stuff on my onedrive account, a office365 subscription (like $50/year) gets you 1 TB of storage space which is more than Ill ever use. I can just re-download games and other media so that stuff really doesn't need to be backed up. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
kaz 2,439 Posted February 8, 2020 Share Posted February 8, 2020 i lose everything when i die Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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