How to backup your computer with an external hard drive (HDD)

I found your pacing and progression through the topic clear and helpful. I learned some useful tips. (Thanks for explaining why the pc hard disc is labelled "C"; now there is one less mystery in my universe.) Being picky, I found the background music a bit of a distraction. This is the first of your videos that I have watched. Thanks

Good video. Q: Can you demonstrate how to backup more than 1 computer to the same external harddrive? Also, is there software specifically used to managing backups? Thank You.

That's not backing up that's just standard file trasnfer.

Not sure if this helps anyone that may run into the same snag but "Clicking & Dragging" the icons remained as a short cut for me but what did work was simply "Copy & Pasting" to the External hard drive. Thanks for the upload of this video.

Thanks you❤

How do you save emails to a external hard drive?
Thanks

Ugh I'm so challenged. I have windows 10 so I tried to "copy" libraries to the hard drive but it says an unexpected error occurred 😢 I hope you still read comments and can help me

Thank you for the refresher. Its been a long time. Great and easy to follow. Many Thanks

Nice explanation Thanks

Thank you! This was very easy to understand and follow!

Perfect. Good pace. Easy to understand by a neophyte like myself. Thank you for your explanation

THIS IS NOT BACKING UP YOUR COMPUTER. READ MORE DOCS.

Hi Kyle, probably a dumb question but being a non tech musician, I'm trying to free up disk space on my windows 10 for my pc music programs to run better. I've transferred my files to an external HD successfully. Is it safe to delete those files from my pc now ? Thank you !

Hey! I have a question im on windows 11 rn but i want to fresh install windows 10 is there a way to fast backup my computer before i install windows 10 so i can restore all of my files?

😃❤👍👍👍Amazing explanation! Thank you for sharing! I

very good tutorial,,,shory and simple, thanks

Great job! 👏Thank you so very much for all of the information you provided. I was so worried about doing this, but now I know how to do it because of you! Now I feel confident and happy!! You are a life saver!! Have a very blessed night and life.

Thank you bro

very nice, easy to follow. i think my dad could understand it!

A true teacher

Brilliant and manny thanks 🙏🏻

subscribed ! Thanks

Once It’s on your hard drive how do you put it on your new computer?
Kind regards

THANK YOU!!

Thank you so much! I was having some nervousness trying this out and your vid helped. Tysm!

So can I just copy the entire C drive to the ext HD?

Amazing explanation! Thank you for sharing! I truly appreciate it.

Hi, how long can a external hard drive last without using it ? Thanks for your video.

OK Sports fans here's one for you... You have a computer that you can access but Bit Locker has been enabled, meaning all the files have been encrypted, making them both unreadable and unable to be copied.. NSA, FBI and CIA will tell you that you are screwed but I'm not an American...
Upload the files to the Cloud server, download to a different machine and Hey Presto, all the files are readable.

What if I backup my files in windows 7 will it work on newer windows like 10 or 11

Your video was helpful but I have a question am planning to sell my pc but I wouldn’t build on in a hurry so if I do this and put everything like my download’s onto a hard drive would it be good for the future new pc? am only looking to carry over download’s and if possible windows settings

how do you save Windows to external drive then placing it back

Thank You for having patience to teach me how to use external hard drive. !!!