Do you want to get a free backup tool for your external hard disk drive? Usually, external hard drive is used for long-term external storage for multimedia, as your favorite Hollywood files, precious photos which witness the growth of your children or the sharing time with your old friends, or music collections which will take up most disk space of your computer, etc. If your external hard drive is used for keeping your precious files or your important business data, you’d better create a backup imaging for it in the case of data loss. Everything from viruses and malware to nature disaster like accidently dropping to the floor by the kids or theft. All these disaster will remove your cherished memories. Here, a free external hard drive backup software, EASEUS Todo Backup is recommended to create a backup image and disaster recovery if there is something wrong with your external hard drive.
EASEUS Todo Backup is a FREE backup software providing system backup & restore, hard disk or partition backup & restore, disk clone to protect your system and disk. It can also create backup image for your entire external hard drive and store it to the CD/DVD to secure your data.
1. Install the free hard backup software to image your external hard drive. Please download EASEUS Todo Backup first.
2. Launch EASEUS Todo Backup. To backup your external hard drive, please click "Backup" in the main window, or select "Operation" -> "Backup" from the menu bar, tool bar or action panel to start "Backup Wizard".
3. EASEUS Todo Backup will scan and list all the existing partition(s) and disk(s) information in this step. Select the external hard drive you need to backup.
Note: Sector-by-sector backup can be chosen if necessary and will be operated automatically when there is bad sector on the source partition or unused space is less than 2%.
4. Select backup image location to save the image and input the name for the image. Please save the backup archive file to different partition or hard drive, especially the removable hard drive. If you save the file on to the original place, you cannot restore the image when this original partition is corrupted.
5. Choose backup options for your external hard drive. Here are two options: "Use default options" and "Set the option manually".
a. Use default options:
If you choose "Use default options" during this step, the backup image will be produced according to you previous set state.
b. Set the option manually:
You can set the Priority, Compress Level, Image Protection and Image Splitting options.
Tips:
In menu "Tool" -> "Option", you can change "Temporary File Path" besides the settings above. If the temporary file path is the partition that you want to backup, sector-by-sector backup cannot be achieved until the path is changed to another partition in "Option" menu.
6. Add some comments to the backup image which will help you to find the image file faster.
7. This window displays the list of operations which will be performed.
8. The process bars of current operation progress and total progress will be listed.
After these steps, you will be successfully backup your external hard drive to an image with the free hard drive backup software. EASEUS offers free support to its users. If you have any technical question about this free backup software to backup your external hard drive, please contact support@todo-backup.com.
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