How should i backup files for installing windows 7: another partition or a disk?
ok so im installing windows 7 but i want to backup my music and files first. should i just create another partition on my hard drive and copy em to there or should i burn em to a disk or should i send em to another computer on my network or any combination of those?
Anything that can fit on DVDs such as music and files should be burnt there. It is faster, easier and less corruption-proof.
hi
best way is burn on cd or dvd its more save
Saving it to a new partition may make the process of transfering the data back to your windows 7 install faster. Saving it to an external disk, however, might be a safer choice incase you fat finger your keyboard during the installation of 7
no, when your installing windows 7 you HAVE to create a new partition or it wont install correctly. if you have a spare hard drive back up all your files to that drive then install windows 7.
Depends on how much you have to back up and what you want to do with them later.
If you have an external hard drive, that’s often easiest.
If everything would fit on a disc or two and you maybe don’t need to access or modify anything anytime soon, you might as well burn them.
If you’d be messing with them again soon and would maybe prefer to burn backups some other time, you could just do another partition for now and copy them back when done.
Anyway, I’d do a combination depending on what’s easiest, how much there is, and how you plan to use things later.
An external hard drive is usually the easiest way to do backups, restore things, etc. though in my own opinion. Another partition is close, but if something happens to the drive, it’s still going to get that partition as well.