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what if you erase your disc before making backup

what can you do if erased hard drive before backup

Posted on Jul 5, 2022 6:34 PM

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PilotBlu

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Posted on Jul 5, 2022 6:39 PM

When you erase a hard disk, you remove everything from it. When you make a backup, you compress data into a file. So if you erase a hard disk and then back it up, you will have a backup file which contains nothing.

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