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Backing up internal hard drive to another internal hard drive. Are there any potential issues?
I just recently had to replace the hard drive in my desktop. When I did so I went ahead and upgraded from a 500GB drive to a 1TB one. The problem being that my external backup drive is only 500GB. I'm trying to decide between just getting another 1TB internal drive, or getting a slower, more expensive 1TB external drive. The problem is I've never really heard anyone mention using an internal drive as backup outside of a RAID. It would NOT be a RAID setup since I don't really want to risk an accidental erasure of both drives, and I don't want to have to go through the hassles of setting up and maintaining it. So my question to you guys is are there any downsides to using an internal hard drive as a backup instead of an external? I for the life of me can't really think of one, but its midnight and well... its me.
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- IBMGuyLv 71 decade agoFavorite Answer
Put another 1TB drive in the pc and set it up as a slave (only if IDE) . Start up windows and go into manage (computer management>disk mangement, you will see the other drive there but as unused, set it up as an extended partition and create a logical drive, then select a drive letter of your choice, I use "Z" then format as NTFS. job done.
It's much faster for transfers and cheaper. and if your c drive crashes later on you will have all your stuff (docs and music etc) saved on the spare second drive.
When you fit it if SATA you will have no worry of damaging the C drive with your windows install.
