User Guide

Value You Can Depend On
12
Before You Backup!
With more of your work and personal life becoming digitized, backups are essential.
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videos and other important computer documents from being lost forever.
The following next few steps are recommendations to consider before backing up,
to help the process run smoothly:
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(or a similar check disk utility) on your computer’s internal hard disk drive.
2. Defragment your computer’s internal hard disk drive by using Windows
Disk Defragmenter (or a similar disk defragmenter utility).
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4. Hard drive backups work best when done on a regular basis. Take a moment
to establish a backup plan that works for you.
Disk Clone and Disk Image will both create a full backup of your system.
Use Disk Image and create a full backup each day, week or month depending
on how critical your data is and how far back you would like to recover a
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Use Disk Clone and create a full backup if you are upgrading to a larger hard
drive or anytime you want or need to have an exact bootable clone of your
hard drive.
5. Once you have decided upon your plan, proceed to the appropriate sections
in this manual to either use Disk Clone or Disk Image.
4. so f T w a r e
Whenever the Aegis Portable is used to store a Cloned Image
the data cables on the Aegis Portable should be removed while
booting or rebooting the computer. IF NOT DAMAGE CAN
OCCUR TO YOUR OPERATING SYSTEM