Internal harddisk as backup medium "MagneX" <Nospam[ at ]Nospam.Nospam> 7/12/2007 9:25:42 PM Any good reason why an internal harddisk (SATA or IDE) cannot be used as backup medium. Internal is what I have and want to use.

Re: Internal harddisk as backup medium Peter Flindt <newsgroups[ at ]lastwebpage.de> 7/12/2007 10:01:31 PM MagneX wrote : [Quoted Text] > Any good reason why an internal harddisk (SATA or IDE) cannot be used as > backup medium. > Internal is what I have and want to use. What happens if you must format C: because you get a virus? Yes I know OneCare is a virusscanner and this should not happen, but there are some other reasons too, where only a clean new install would help. OR you harddisk/hardware crash. NO, a backup on the internal drive is not the best idea... Peter

Re: Internal harddisk as backup medium "artfudd" <notreal[ at ]noplace.nil> 7/13/2007 2:10:25 AM It seems strange that their thinking is that to backup to an internal drive is dangerous, but to backup to an external drive is safe. I think they need to differentiate between a separate (from the OS) internal hard drive from the drive the OS resides. I can see not wanting to backup to a partition on the hard drive that also has the OS partition, but see no reason to not allow backup to a different internal hard drive. If something can happen to the internal drive then something is even more apt to happen to an external drive. Is their thinking a little haywire.... or is mine? :) -- Art (artfudd) ------------- "StephenB" <sboots[ at ]mvps.org> wrote in message news:f2hd93ta6k985pv9mkb3instogoalgeora[ at ]4ax.com... [Quoted Text] > "MagneX" <Nospam[ at ]Nospam.Nospam> wrote: > >>Any good reason why an internal harddisk (SATA or IDE) cannot be used as >>backup medium. >>Internal is what I have and want to use. > The designers of OneCare have apparently decided that an internal disk is > not a > safe alternative backup location for the average user. This is a fairly > often > requested change, but the 2.0 beta, released yesterday, still does not > include > this. I would recommend turning off the backup monitoring in OneCare and > using > an alternative solution for backup. I use SyncToy to copy files and > folders. I > also use Acronis True Image for partition image backups. > -steve > -- > Stephen Boots sboots[ at ]mvps.org > Microsoft MVP - Windows Live > Windows Live OneCare Forum Moderator > http://forums.microsoft.com/windowsonecare/default.aspx?siteid=2

Re: Internal harddisk as backup medium "artfudd" <notreal[ at ]noplace.nil> 7/14/2007 12:24:01 AM Considering how seldom one has a hard drive failure, and how difficult it is to actually destroy data from a hard drive, I would sooner backup essential data to a data only hard drive (whether internal or external) as opposed to a fragile DVD. -- Art (artfudd) Folden --------------------- "StephenB" <sboots[ at ]mvps.org> wrote in message news:4kfe93d3dcsnb7vh8o5a09lg75s1t2rsl8[ at ]4ax.com... [Quoted Text] > "artfudd" <notreal[ at ]noplace.nil> wrote: > >>t seems strange that their thinking is that to backup to an internal drive >>is dangerous, but to backup to an external drive is safe. I think they >>need >>to differentiate between a separate (from the OS) internal hard drive from >>the drive the OS resides. I can see not wanting to backup to a partition >>on >>the hard drive that also has the OS partition, but see no reason to not >>allow backup to a different internal hard drive. If something can happen >>to >>the internal drive then something is even more apt to happen to an >>external >>drive. Is their thinking a little haywire.... or is mine? :) >>-- >>Art (artfudd) > Actually, they originally designed backup to *only* work with CD/DVD. > External > disks was added for 1.0 and Network drives were added for 1.5. > :-) > -steve > -- > Stephen Boots sboots[ at ]mvps.org > Microsoft MVP - Windows Live > Windows Live OneCare Forum Moderator > http://forums.microsoft.com/windowsonecare/default.aspx?siteid=2