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I have an external hard drive for backup in addition to my regular hard drive. In case my main hard drive crashes, are the back-up files easily recovered or would it crash also?

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I have an external hard drive for backup in addition to my regular hard drive. In case my main hard drive crashes, are the back-up files easily recovered or would it crash also?

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If your main hard drive crashes, it generally will not affect the external hard drive. Recovering files from My Documents is easy, simply click and drag after the main hard drive has been replaced and the operating system has been installed. Recovering e-mail is not so easy. There is backup software available; some external hard drives come with software that will back up your entire hard drive. A free program that can be used to backup your entire hard drive is, Cobain (http://www.vnunet.