I need to back up all my photos as well as my documents in Windows XP. Can someone recommend an external hard drive, and is this process easy for a non-technical silver surfer to do ??
If its really important data i would save to DVD/CD as a precaution, i know someone who put 1,000s of photos on an external drive & guess what , it broke !! bigtime..
i second that answer of chas2008 if its for keeping files safe you don't need to access regularly cd/dvd is the safest option,
i lost a lot of files when my western digital external failed no explanation nothing
was accessible one day,that was it
I've had an external hard drive die on me too, luckily I keep all my important stuff on at least 4 hard drives. One backup onto one hard drive is not a safe backup.