Cheers Jonathan. I have had my PC for approx. 11 years and I have never backed it up. But, after watching your video and following your step by step instructions I have now backed up my PC. Albeit that I am now 67 years of age, the video gave me clear guidance how to achieve a BACKUP ON A COMPUTOR.
I use my laptop all the time, but I can assure you...I am SO not computer literate! This video gave even ME the steps I needed to get it done. Thank you so much for making it simple!
Man I had to subscribe this was short and to the point and most importantly soooooo easy to follow!!!! Thank you so much brother!! You’re a good man!!! I’m sure this seems like a ridiculous video for all the smart computer people but I’m lucky I even know where the power button is. Lol. Thanks bud! If you lived near me I’d buy you a beer!
Thank you heaps for making this tutorial Jonathan. Now the learning really begins with backing up!!! I too couldn't work out if my data was overwritten using "from last backup date" or a complete back was made each time. I'm guessing earlier backups drop off if you've set say "keep for a month", so there would always be space for a new back up. Lots of interesting questions from interesting and lovely people.
Thanks. That was the clearest, most straighhtforward presentation I have seen. Just go and look at some of the others. No need for jargon - this is perfect.
After searching the internet for two days, including other UA-cam videos, I finally came across your video and the answer I was looking for. Thank you!
as i am typing on wrong keyboard.nice video.easy follow. is identical to what i see. thats hard to do.do have questions....how tell if worked? unsure where to find back up.or for that matter what it will even look like. on external drive?i wanted to backup entire computer for when i do something dumb...happens often.
Thank you Jonathan. Very clear video. I have a Samsung all in one which has Windows 10. I’m retired and don’t use it as often but decided to back up to an external drive. I purchased a Maxone (received today) and followed your excellent instructions. My question is when I plugged it in and backed up everything, it now shows 2 drives both named Maxone but I’m unsure why it duplicated. Should I delete one? I’m hesitant to do that, of course. I appreciate any advice.
Thanks Jonathan! Really well explained and very helpful indeed. When you are selecting folders to back up, can some of the directories on your D: drive (for instance) be included?
Ok so those of you saying nothing is happening after you click on back up now for the first time here is how it goes. First it takes a couple hours for the two units to figure out how much space is needed and to configure the back up drive. Once this happens it’s going to read 0% because it hasn’t saved anything yet it’s just configured to save. Click back up now again and the true back up will now start. When it’s done it will say back up complete on the date you did it and you are all done. Now backups should be automatic.
You did a great tutorial you zoom in on what you were doing so we can see, you talked slow enough that we could understand what you were saying" you are heads above the crowd on that, I say that NO one no one thinks about making sure we can see that's why we come to there site the only thing I can say is keep your voice loud enough that we can hear around 2:4? you voice was so low I had to replay 7 times to figure out what you said, all in all one of the best video's I ever seen!!
Thanks for the info Jonathon, very well explained and I think I will now be able to make use of my external hard drive I bought recently. I will take you up on your offer of help with Windows 10 no doubt. Much appreciated.
Thank you so much for this. Oddly, it didn't backup much that was on my drive, probably because of OneDrive, but that's fine. I'm just happy to have it backed up before I hit the road! Thanks again!
Thank you for your very helpful instructions. Just would like to know how to tell when the backup is finished loading. Seems like mine has been running almost an hour.🤔
I have a 2TB external drive with 200GB of contents in it. My PC has less than 100GB of data to back up. Is it ok to back up PC with those contents in it or do I need to use a clean external drive. If I use it, do I run the risk of wiping the 200GB of personal content in the external drive?
Hikari Sakai Depends on a disk. If it’s USB 2.0 or 3.0 USB port. USB 2.0 has a speed around 480 MBits/s so it might take up to 8 hours if you have USB 2.0.
Just asking: Do you have to always have connected the external drive to the laptop? I mean you may have chosen files to be backed up every 12 hours or daily. What happens if you have disconnect the drive? I want to backup my files now and lets say in a week from now, I don't want so often procedure. Will be problem?
Thanks man, this was the only video I could find that ACTUALLY just simply showed me what I needed to do. Appreciate it. Would you happen to have another video for what to do once you replace the internal hard drive, and have to put what's on the back up back on to the new internal hard drive?
I've just bought a toshiba 1tb hard drive and found your video to show me how to use it. I've just followed the instructions up to the end and clicked on back up now and I'm getting a pop up saying there are errors on the drive and to repair it now. I'm confused. What does this mean? Is it saying it's a faulty external drive or is it my computer? Hope you can help. [pensioner not very tech savvy!]
Thanks for this. It was easy to follow. Would this type of backup allow me to restore everything, including the operating system, if my hard drive failed totally?
Can I use this to completely back up my hard drive including windows operating system? Basicaly. i need to make a complete copy of my hard drive. Can I do this through windows backup?
How can you back up your entire pc, like copy windows 10 itself onto external hard drive. as if it goes down you end up having to do a fresh install anyway starting with windows 10 disc all over again. I am new to this side of things. and I have no idea how to do cloning either.
I would have liked to see more options for how often to back up for instance a week or a month. Daily is a bit much. I am trying to set up some backups for users at my organization who are very computer illiterate and crybabies when it comes to any data loss ie it's IT's fault when they don't back up their files have a system failure and IT can't recover my files. My other concern is that they won't have their external HDD plugged in or computer turned on when it is time for a scheduled backup
Hi Jonathon, this will probably be an idiotic question... but sorry I need to ask it anyway. If you attach an external drive for your backing up location, do you need to then also select it in the exclude folder section or will this be done automatically?
I've done most of the things in this video(added folders, changed backup time, etc.) but when I click "Back up Now" it says it's backing up my data but the backup size stays at 0 bytes. Could you please help?
Logan R. The same thing is happening to me... I did all the steps, clicked on Back Up Now, and it still says, Your Data is Not Yet Backed Up. Question... were you ever able to back up your data???? Thanks!
So I got three drives with a bunch of data on each. One is my boot drive SSD W/ a few other things on it, one is my HDD W/ pics and videos and such and one is another SSD with games and such on it. Can I use this this process to back it all up if the External HDD has the space?
You were not just good with your assistance instructions -- you were very good! I suspect you solved my problem (I say suspect because tomorrow, as you know, the problem may come back to haunt me again because computers possess their own form of bipolarism multiplied by a gigabyte factor and may repeat problems all over again). Case in point -- My WD Passport was scanning my computer but not giving me the source drive (C: hard drive) to save to the target drive (D: passport external drive). Your video instruction appears to have solved the problem as it gave me the option I was looking for. In either event -- thank you and, yes, I subscribed.
Hi Jonathan, I do have one question. When I backup > Add a drive, and the external HDD is connected to the laptop, can I unplug it or should it be plugged at all times to backup your files daily? Is it necessary that you have your HDD connected to the laptop daily or just when you want to backup the files for specific reasons?
@@bearded365guy Hi Jonathan, I have a question. When I have already backed up all the stuff to my hard drive can I delete all the stuff on my computer? Because I’ve already backed it up.
hi can i ask question? i have a problem here in my computer about automatic encryption. because everytime i make a new folder or download files to my computer it automatically encrypting it even my EFS is off and my bitlocker is off also.
The smile in the beginning gave me confidence to back-up my laptop ❤️🙃
Exactly 🙃
@xlaVIP 94 breh
🙃
Bruh
Cheers Jonathan. I have had my PC for approx. 11 years and I have never backed it up. But, after watching your video and following your step by step instructions I have now backed up my PC. Albeit that I am now 67 years of age, the video gave me clear guidance how to achieve a BACKUP ON A COMPUTOR.
Zero fluff, 100% informative & straight to the point. Thanks!
Wow. That was one of the few tutorials where I could follow along, exactly to the detail. Thanks for the good work, and have a great day!
Eureka! Someone who actually walks through the process and does it very well. THANK YOU
I use my laptop all the time, but I can assure you...I am SO not computer literate! This video gave even ME the steps I needed to get it done. Thank you so much for making it simple!
Hi
This tutorial was so well paced, explained well with lots of great graphic content. Love the voice and calm style. Thank you so much. Barbara x
Man I had to subscribe this was short and to the point and most importantly soooooo easy to follow!!!! Thank you so much brother!! You’re a good man!!! I’m sure this seems like a ridiculous video for all the smart computer people but I’m lucky I even know where the power button is. Lol. Thanks bud! If you lived near me I’d buy you a beer!
Thank you thank you Jonathan- after viewing 20 videos- yours was the only one I could understand !!!
Very well done. Presented in a very clear manner and easy to understand!
Thank you heaps for making this tutorial Jonathan. Now the learning really begins with backing up!!! I too couldn't work out if my data was overwritten using "from last backup date" or a complete back was made each time. I'm guessing earlier backups drop off if you've set say "keep for a month", so there would always be space for a new back up. Lots of interesting questions from interesting and lovely people.
This actually helped, thank you! other on UA-cam just wasted my time
You just simplified what some others made hard work!!! Thanks Very Much Jonathan
Thanks, Jonathan. The steps were very easy to follow as I'm preparing to backup my laptop to send it in for some repairs.
Thanks. That was the clearest, most straighhtforward presentation I have seen. Just go and look at some of the others. No need for jargon - this is perfect.
This guy is AMAZING!! Idc what you guys say!!... LOL. Thanks for the info. Couldnt have dome it without you. :D
After searching the internet for two days, including other UA-cam videos, I finally came across your video and the answer I was looking for. Thank you!
WOW I just can't tell you how helpful, clear and concise your instructions were!!! Thank you so much!! I'll be back.
Perfect tutorial. Thank you.
as i am typing on wrong keyboard.nice video.easy follow. is identical to what i see. thats hard to do.do have questions....how tell if worked? unsure where to find back up.or for that matter what it will even look like. on external drive?i wanted to backup entire computer for when i do something dumb...happens often.
Thank you so much. Easy to understand, finally. I "think" I got everything backed up, omitting One Drive as you said. Mahalo!!!
BEST TUTORIAL EVER. Clear, concise and I was able to do exactly what he said and it WORKED! Thank you!
I loved it also. Send me a snap, Johnwayne1984
JB JR lol what
@@rossiboiii lmfao
Great video - quick and to the point. I actually followed and it worked for me right away, and that is something rare in my life! ha ha Thanks!
Thank You Jonathan...this info is so helpful it's put my mind at ease...All The Best!
All done and sorted with your clear instructions. Thanks a million !!!
Thank you Jonathan. Very clear video. I have a Samsung all in one which has Windows 10. I’m retired and don’t use it as often but decided to back up to an external drive. I purchased a Maxone (received today) and followed your excellent instructions. My question is when I plugged it in and backed up everything, it now shows 2 drives both named Maxone but I’m unsure why it duplicated. Should I delete one? I’m hesitant to do that, of course. I appreciate any advice.
Superbly presented tutorial, very clear, not speaking at a 100 MPH, or annoying music..
Thank you thank you very much!!!! I have been searching for an hour how to backup my external drive. Simple and straightforward😀😀😀
Fantastic video Jon! lovely accent as well, keep up!
Simple. Clear. Concise. Easy-to-follow instructions.
Guy: "...stay tuned" *awkward smile*
Me: "i... need an adult?"
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Guy: "I AM AN ADUUUUUUUUUULT"
if you get the reference. Your awesome.
Thanks Jonathan! Really well explained and very helpful indeed. When you are selecting folders to back up, can some of the directories on your D: drive (for instance) be included?
Ok so those of you saying nothing is happening after you click on back up now for the first time here is how it goes. First it takes a couple hours for the two units to figure out how much space is needed and to configure the back up drive. Once this happens it’s going to read 0% because it hasn’t saved anything yet it’s just configured to save. Click back up now again and the true back up will now start. When it’s done it will say back up complete on the date you did it and you are all done. Now backups should be automatic.
Thanks for that, I appreciate it.
You did a great tutorial you zoom in on what you were doing so we can see, you talked slow enough that we could understand what you were saying" you are heads above the crowd on that, I say that NO one no one thinks about making sure we can see that's why we come to there site the only thing I can say is keep your voice loud enough that we can hear around 2:4? you voice was so low I had to replay 7 times to figure out what you said, all in all one of the best video's I ever seen!!
Thank you for such a great, easy to follow tutorial! This helped me a lot :D
Still helped me 5 years later, thanks!
Thanks for the info Jonathon, very well explained and I think I will now be able to make use of my external hard drive I bought recently. I will take you up on your offer of help with Windows 10 no doubt. Much appreciated.
Thanks for the video:) I was struggling with my laptop for the whole day
This really helped. Now I can use this to help others.
Thank you so much for this. Oddly, it didn't backup much that was on my drive, probably because of OneDrive, but that's fine. I'm just happy to have it backed up before I hit the road! Thanks again!
Thanks for the video! But I was wondering if I could use this back up on a new machine? I'm assuming I can.
Does the external hard drive always need to be plugged in? I keep it in a separate location and backup my computer every few weeks.
You only have to plug it in when you use it (p.ex when you are doing a backup)
I believe so, and the setup is to backup every day, then makes sense to buy a WIRELESS backup drive.
Thank you Jonathan, I appreciate the simple instructions.
Thank you you have been the most helpful person on you tube for this external hard drive 👍
Thank you for your very helpful instructions. Just would like to know how to tell when the backup is finished loading. Seems like mine has been running almost an hour.🤔
A very BIG thank you for making this so easy to understand and follow.You made my life easier thank you from a frustrated Mac user.
Thank you! That was less involved than I thought it would be.
I have a 2TB external drive with 200GB of contents in it. My PC has less than 100GB of data to back up. Is it ok to back up PC with those contents in it or do I need to use a clean external drive. If I use it, do I run the risk of wiping the 200GB of personal content in the external drive?
have you found the answer. one of the most important query. i am stucked with this.
This is so informative. You really made it simple and easy to understand.
The best ever, straight to the point 👍
what about external hard drive. any other backed up data will loss or not during backup precess. will extra backup location be created as a location?
Hi how long does it take for everything to be backed up will it say on screen when it's done?
Depends on file / folders size.
@@fliper0567 say it's an entire Drive? Like 1.5TB worth of content, how long then?
Hikari Sakai Depends on a disk. If it’s USB 2.0 or 3.0 USB port. USB 2.0 has a speed around 480 MBits/s so it might take up to 8 hours if you have USB 2.0.
@@fliper0567 3.0 of course, but it seems like it'll take a bit longer than that as it's been about 4-5 hours and only 500GB transfered so far
@@HikariSakai I think it will be more than 8 hours, but I am not really sure. Good luck with that though :)
can I copy and paste a windows 10 image backup from an external hard drive to another and have it still work?
Is there a way to fully copy a PC with all the settings so I can move it to a new PC?
Just asking: Do you have to always have connected the external drive to the laptop? I mean you may have chosen files to be backed up every 12 hours or daily. What happens if you have disconnect the drive? I want to backup my files now and lets say in a week from now, I don't want so often procedure. Will be problem?
I had to reformat the new hard drive before I could do all this. Thank you this video. It saved me from spending a lot of money.
Thanks man, this was the only video I could find that ACTUALLY just simply showed me what I needed to do. Appreciate it. Would you happen to have another video for what to do once you replace the internal hard drive, and have to put what's on the back up back on to the new internal hard drive?
Easy Peasy! Grateful! Thank-you!
I've just bought a toshiba 1tb hard drive and found your video to show me how to use it. I've just followed the instructions up to the end and clicked on back up now and I'm getting a pop up saying there are errors on the drive and to repair it now. I'm confused. What does this mean? Is it saying it's a faulty external drive or is it my computer? Hope you can help. [pensioner not very tech savvy!]
Question: If you do a backup and choose “keep forever”, then, say, a month later, do another backup, will it keep both backups?
Thanks for this. It was easy to follow. Would this type of backup allow me to restore everything, including the operating system, if my hard drive failed totally?
Surprisingly simple. Thank you
Can I use this to completely back up my hard drive including windows operating system? Basicaly. i need to make a complete copy of my hard drive. Can I do this through windows backup?
Have you found an answer?
Just the information I was looking for, thank you for sharing!
Many thanks!
How can you back up your entire pc, like copy windows 10 itself onto external hard drive. as if it goes down you end up having to do a fresh install anyway starting with windows 10 disc all over again. I am new to this side of things. and I have no idea how to do cloning either.
@Integral IT Can I back UP my local disk drive on my computer?
will my os (win10) be also backup together with it's own activation key?
Absolutely superb. I’m a complete Luddite and even I managed to follow. Thank you so much
Thank you so much. Very easy to understand, and I transferred all of my data so easily per your descriptions and instruction ....
Can you do a video on how to install from backup?
thank you
I think this only backs up data, not windows itself.
You will keep your pictures, but you can't boot from there.
This is one of the best tutorials as well as one of the most helpful tutorials I’ve ever watched. Thank you
Please can you tell me whether I can back-up apps using the method shown in your video?
Thank you very much !! But if you use that auto backup you have to keep your drive plugged in all the time? I always remove mine
I would have liked to see more options for how often to back up for instance a week or a month. Daily is a bit much. I am trying to set up some backups for users at my organization who are very computer illiterate and crybabies when it comes to any data loss ie it's IT's fault when they don't back up their files have a system failure and IT can't recover my files. My other concern is that they won't have their external HDD plugged in or computer turned on when it is time for a scheduled backup
Do you need to backup your drivers?
Hi Jonathon, this will probably be an idiotic question... but sorry I need to ask it anyway. If you attach an external drive for your backing up location, do you need to then also select it in the exclude folder section or will this be done automatically?
I've done most of the things in this video(added folders, changed backup time, etc.) but when I click "Back up Now" it says it's backing up my data but the backup size stays at 0 bytes.
Could you please help?
Logan R. The same thing is happening to me... I did all the steps, clicked on Back Up Now, and it still says, Your Data is Not Yet Backed Up. Question... were you ever able to back up your data???? Thanks!
i have the same problem. any solutions?
easy,,,just look it up at youtube or just post the problem in some website ...dah
I had the same problem but i just repeated the steps and it worked
Give it time to think, it will first work out the amount of space and then once that is done click backup again and it will crack on with it
Great instructional video easy to follow.💖👍
THANK YOU FOR MAKING IT SO SIMPLY!!!
Short and to the point
THANK YOU
Very good explanation Edward easy and not scared to give it a go 🤙
Great Stuff! Straight to the point and Clear
We can use this method to back up before formatting the laptop instead of copying files one by one?
The best tutorial!! Thank you so much!!
So I got three drives with a bunch of data on each.
One is my boot drive SSD W/ a few other things on it, one is my HDD W/ pics and videos and such and one is another SSD with games and such on it. Can I use this this process to back it all up if the External HDD has the space?
Excellent information, easy to follow and understand. Job well done. Thanks
I need more space on my computer. Will backing it up remove items to make more room?
You were not just good with your assistance instructions -- you were very good! I suspect you solved my problem (I say suspect because tomorrow, as you know, the problem may come back to haunt me again because computers possess their own form of bipolarism multiplied by a gigabyte factor and may repeat problems all over again). Case in point -- My WD Passport was scanning my computer but not giving me the source drive (C: hard drive) to save to the target drive (D: passport external drive). Your video instruction appears to have solved the problem as it gave me the option I was looking for. In either event -- thank you and, yes, I subscribed.
Hi Jonathan, I do have one question. When I backup > Add a drive, and the external HDD is connected to the laptop, can I unplug it or should it be plugged at all times to backup your files daily? Is it necessary that you have your HDD connected to the laptop daily or just when you want to backup the files for specific reasons?
Just when backing up!
@@bearded365guy Hi Jonathan, I have a question. When I have already backed up all the stuff to my hard drive can I delete all the stuff on my computer? Because I’ve already backed it up.
VERY LUCID, VERY WELL NARRATED, VERY HELPFUL...THANKS A LOT
Can you do a video on how to install from backup?
Thank you so much! This video was super helpful and well done.
That is an excellent tutorial thank you
good video thanks a lot my friend
I can’t tell you how much this video helped me! I was able to follow along on every step. So clear and concise. Thank you!!!
What about the section "Back up to a different drive" do I click on "Stop Using Drive since my pc automatically backs up to One Drive?
hi can i ask question?
i have a problem here in my computer
about automatic encryption.
because everytime i make a new folder or download files to my computer it automatically encrypting it even my EFS is off and my bitlocker is off also.
This was very easy and straightforward. Thank you
Saved the day, really appreciate it man!