I have a WD My Book World II and used to manaually copy my documents over to back up.
I then set up the supplied software and left it to its own devices…its now backed up 300Gb and a few minutes ago I ‘verified’ all the backups and was about to restore my wheezing laptop to factory settings including a format. But then I clicked ‘restore’ just to see what happened…an error message is what happened…incompatible with this version of Windows?!! So I did a little Googling and the first thread I find is chock full of reviews stating the restore process is at best hit and miss.
So, seeing as it’ll take several evenings to backup 300Gb to the drive over a LAN, is there any other (preferably free) software that will keep me backed up in future. I’ve lost all faith in the WD software…