Clickfree C2N - Manual (Page 99)

Clickfree C2N Home Backup Drive User Guide Restoring My Content (DVD)
Restoring My Content (DVD)
W
HAT IF MY COMPUTER
’
S INTERNAL HARD DRIVE STOPS WORKING
,
OR
I
WOULD LIKE TO TRANSFER MY CONTENT TO A NEW COMPUTER
?
All computer hard drives fail eventually, sometimes without warning. Occasionally,
computers suffer damage that affects the hard drive. Sometimes, laptop computers get
lost or stolen. Sometimes, also, you may delete content by mistake. When these things
happen, other computer users may lose valuable, sometimes irreplaceable, data.
But if you lose content you’ll be really happy that you bought and used Clickfree . Your
backed-up content is safe on your Clickfree backup, and can be restored when you have
a working computer again.
A Clickfree backup is also ideal for transferring your content from an old computer to a
new one. For details, see “How do I restore from multiple computers? And how can I
undo a restore?” on page 109.
W HAT DO I NEED BEFORE I CAN USE C LICKFREE TO RESTORE OR TRANSFER MY
CONTENT ?
Before you can restore your content, your computer needs to be working – at the very
least it needs to be able to start up and display the desktop.
You need the CDs or DVDs that were used to back up your computer. In addition you
should have the C2N Home Backup Drive you used to back up your content. You can
restore files without the C2N Home Backup Drive, but it is more difficult to restore all of
your files without the C2N Home Backup Drive. See “How do I restore my files using
only the backup disks?” on page 123.
Of course, you can ‘restore’ your content to any computer that meets the system
requirements (see “What do I need before I start?” on page 84), not just to the computer
whose content you backed up.
The easiest way to copy content between computers is to have your backup disks handy
and plug the C2N Home Backup Drive in to your new computer. When the
Clickfree
application launches, just click the Restore button at the bottom of the countdown
screen and follow the procedure to restore content in “How do I let Clickfree restore
decide what to restore and where?” on page 100.
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