- Aug 16, 2018
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Looking for a not so stupid answer.
Back 20 or so years ago I had a couple of old desktops in my computer room that I trashed and updated to newer equipment. Before I trashed them I copied most of my important files to the new desktops. However to be on the safe side in case I missed something I backed them up to flash drives and put the flash drives away.
So the other day I was looking for a long lost file and thought it might be on one of those old flash drives. My question is since when I created them by backing up my hard drive if I put one into my current laptop and click restore is it going to wipe out my laptop and restore it to the hard drive in the old computer?
I've never done anything like this before.
Back 20 or so years ago I had a couple of old desktops in my computer room that I trashed and updated to newer equipment. Before I trashed them I copied most of my important files to the new desktops. However to be on the safe side in case I missed something I backed them up to flash drives and put the flash drives away.
So the other day I was looking for a long lost file and thought it might be on one of those old flash drives. My question is since when I created them by backing up my hard drive if I put one into my current laptop and click restore is it going to wipe out my laptop and restore it to the hard drive in the old computer?
I've never done anything like this before.