Data loss can be painful. If you have been spending hours and hours on an important document for work or school, you would like to prevent data loss of your data. To find that your important document is gone, is devastating news. Creating a simple back up using windows 10’s built in back up feature is a simple and effective way of preventing data loss. The program is called File History.
When installing a new drive, the new drive will need to be initialized. The initialization can be done with the windows disk management tool. When the disk has been initialized, then a new simple volume will need to be created. A new simple volume can be created by right clicking on the drive that is labeled with unallocated space and select “New Simple volume.” After selecting the option of creating a simple volume, a wizard will appear asking about storage space and file system type.
To create the back up, type in the windows search bar Backup Settings. There will be an option called back up using file history, and there will be an option to add a drive. Click on the “Add a drive” option and choose the drive that you would like to use as a back up drive.
Once you select the drive that you would like to use as a back up, you will be brought to a menu containing back up options. This menu allows you to select which file that you would like to back up. Files on your main hard drive can be backed up as well as other hard drives which are not your main hard drive. For example, if you have a secondary hard drive in your computer that you would like to back up, you can back up this hard drive in this back up options menu. To back up that hard drive, you select the drive and choose which files to back up. You can also choose the entire drive to back up if you’d like.
If you install a brand new hard drive bought from the store, you will need to initialize the drive. To initialize the drive, type into the windows search bar “create and format hard drive partitions.”
Next type into the windows search bar, “back up settings.” In the back up settings option, select “add drive.”
Once the drive you like is selected, choose the files that you would like backed up onto your new drive. You can back up individual folders as well as an entire hard drive.
