Paul. I will do that and thanks for that. All backup will go to external drive. Gary Sent from Gary's iPhone On 5 Feb 2012, at 20:38, "Support At NCBI" <support@xxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi Gary, > > Creating a D drive on your main hard drive won't protect anything. If your > main drive crashes then both the C and D drive will be lost so don't depend > on a D drive partition to protect your data, just use the external drives. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: vip_students-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:vip_students-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Gary Worn > Sent: 05 February 2012 20:23 > To: vip_students@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Cc: <vip_students@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Subject: [vip_students] Re: Re win 7 home premuim > > Paul. > Thanks but I figured it out late last night. There was only the DVD drive > and the c drive setup, so now I have a D drive just in case the C drive > crashes, I have two external hard drives. Cheers Paul. > > Gary > > Sent from Gary's iPhone > > On 5 Feb 2012, at 19:08, "Support At NCBI" <support@xxxxxxx> wrote: > >> Hi Gary, >> >> Its not at all complicated, there are several ways you can achieve >> this task; >> >> *. Purchase an external USB hard drive, make sure that the external >> drive has double the space of the main hard drive containing windows >> then just plug in the new USB drive and copy and paste any important >> files such as word documents, excel and other files which are >> important to you. This is the most basic of backups and its only as >> good as the owner/user remembering to backup his or her files on a regular > basis. >> *. Using the same method as above, once you install a USB hard drive, >> then either purchase or obtain a free backup software package, there