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My Book Back Up Program Great. . . . . .
I read a lot of reviews and I thank those who came before me for helping me make my purchasing decision. This is not my first ext. hard drive or similar device. Hard drives works similar, with the same purpose to back-up your important files. What makes the different is the back-up program that comes with My Book. I have a couple of WD ext. hard drives without the program. It’s a drag-n-drop to back-up

I would like to expand and share what another reviewer have said about the type of format for the benefit of those who are not computer savvy. My Book comes with file system FAT 32 which has a limitation to save a single file up to 4GB only, in order to over come that, the hard drive should be formatted to NTFS. To check this out, click on Start, click on My Computer, click on Local Disk (C) and on the left panel under Detail see what file system your computer have. I did the research for you, just follow it. If you have save any files to your My Book, back it up somewhere. Close any open programs.

To convert file system FAT or FAT32 to NTFS, do the following: First copy this portion to Words or any similar program and print. It is easier to follow. Click Start, click Control Panel, click Performance and Maintenance, click Administrative Tools, and then double-click Computer Management. Click the plus sign under Storage, click Disk Management.

On the right panel under Volume, your computer drives will appear and one of them is My Book. Right-click My Book and click Format. Select the options you want, both is just fine and then click OK. When done, open the WD Backup icon on your desk top. You will be presented to select which folder or files to back-up, when done, click OK. Seat back and relax, it will take a while.

Looking to the future, if you have a lot of pictures, music, videos, get the largest hard drive you can afford. With the size of files and programs of today, they will go fast. Whatever gigabyte sizes you choose deduct 20GB and that’s the real hard drive capacity. To learn more, read about conversion type base 10 decimal vs. base 2. In closing, the Premium edition is better (two rings) than the standard edition but higher price with extra Google program. That’s my personal view.

Update:
With regard is hard drive capacity, we can called it false advertisement. A good example is we can describe how fast we drove our car over the posted speed limit of 55mph by say I was doing 78, but we left out the fact that it was kilometer per hour. Actually it’s 55 mph. One reason they can do this is because whatever conversion they used, the measurement is called bytes. To make it sound non-technical decimal numbering system is used(1 MB = 1,000,000 bytes) but in true computer measurement it’s 1 MB = 1,024 kilobytes). Therefore, whatever the hard drive size you have in bytes, divide it by those numbers and one will be smaller. If they use apples as measurement, they should describe it as apple, not orange.