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5. SOFTWARE
A. Before You Backup!
With more of your work and personal life becoming digitized, backups are
essential. Backups protect and preserve precious data, music fi les, digital
photos, digital videos and other important computer documents from being
lost forever.
Follow the next few steps before backing up to help the process run
smoothly:
1. Ensure there are no fi le system errors by running Windows Disk
Cleanup (or a similar disk cleanup utility) on your computer's internal
hard disk drive.
2. Defragment your computer's internal hard disk drive by using Windows
Disk Defragmenter (or a similar disk defragment utility).
3. Make copies of any important fi les or data to another drive.
4. Hard drive backups work best when done on a regular basis. Take a
moment to establish a backup plan that works for you.
For example:
a. Perform full backups (using Clone EZ, exact bootable clone of
your hard drive) at the end of each month.
b. Perform weekly backups (using Image EZ, compressed image
of your entire hard drive or partition).
5. Once you have decided upon your plan, proceed to the appropriate
sections in this manual to either use Clone EZ or Image EZ.
and/or
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