I know what you thought when you saw the title of this post. You perverts. Get that thought out of your head. I'm referring to my new external hard drive. I am finally backing up my files. Hopefully.
Through a link posted on SlickDeals.net I found a nice deal on a Western Digital My Passport Elite 500 GB portable external hard drive. It arrived today. I plugged it into the USB port. Eventually I figured out I'd have to install software. There were 4 categories of things to install, one of them didn't install for some reason. The instructions that came with it are non-existent, and the online help at their website is about as useless. I couldn't figure out how to start a backup or anything.
Finally, I decided to just back up my files using my Norton Security Suite -- the one that just replaced McAfee as the security package Comcast provides free to its Internet customers. It seems to be working as I write this. If it doesn't then I hope someone reading this is a computer genius and can help me.
This is a big deal because I'll have backups of my photos and some documents, and especially my mp3 files. I wouldn't want to have to copy those from my CD again, and I have plenty of downloads that have never been backed up or burned to CDs. Losing a lot of them would be a disaster.
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