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<blockquote data-quote="pigoo3" data-source="post: 1643867" data-attributes="member: 56379"><p>All data should be backed up to prevent unwanted loss (assuming that the data is important & the user doesn't want it lost). Whether an internal or external drive.</p><p></p><p>More than likely if you did the disk repair…everything would be fine. But you never know…the rare situation could happen…and the data lost. So that's why I say the data should be backed up before doing the repair (just in case).</p><p></p><p>One other option is (depending on how much data we are talking about). You could copy this data from the external HD temporarily to the computers internal HD (if you have enough space on the internal drive). Then do the repair. If everything goes fine (no data loss)…then you could delete the data copied to the internal HD.</p><p></p><p>But as I mentioned (for the future)…everything on your computer (internal & external HD's) should be backed up to prevent loss. HD's sometimes can fail/die very suddenly. And if the data is not backed up…it will be lost.</p><p></p><p>- Nick</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="pigoo3, post: 1643867, member: 56379"] All data should be backed up to prevent unwanted loss (assuming that the data is important & the user doesn't want it lost). Whether an internal or external drive. More than likely if you did the disk repair…everything would be fine. But you never know…the rare situation could happen…and the data lost. So that's why I say the data should be backed up before doing the repair (just in case). One other option is (depending on how much data we are talking about). You could copy this data from the external HD temporarily to the computers internal HD (if you have enough space on the internal drive). Then do the repair. If everything goes fine (no data loss)…then you could delete the data copied to the internal HD. But as I mentioned (for the future)…everything on your computer (internal & external HD's) should be backed up to prevent loss. HD's sometimes can fail/die very suddenly. And if the data is not backed up…it will be lost. - Nick [/QUOTE]
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