Clickfree C2N Home Backup Drive User Guide Restoring My Content (HD)
Restoring My Content (HD)
WHAT 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.
WHAT DO I NEED BEFORE I CAN USE CLICKFREE TO RESTORE MY CONTENT?
Note: If you are not an administrator, or are an administrator setting up a Clickfree
C2N Home Backup Drive for a non-administrator user, see “Non-administrator
users” on page 53 before you begin using the C2N Home Backup Drive for the
first time.
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.
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 14), not just to the computer
whose content you backed up.
If you are restoring content to a new computer that has never been connected to the
Clickfree C2N Home Backup Drive, plug the Clickfree C2N Home Backup Drive in to
your new computer.
If you are restoring content to a computer that has previously been backed up using the
Clickfree C2N Home Backup Drive, use the BackupLink utility (double-click the
BackupLink icon on your desktop or your system tray (bottom right corner of your
screen).
When the Clickfree application launches, click the
Restore/Transfer button at the
bottom of the countdown screen.
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