Just bought a LaCie 500GB External HDD. Want to back up existing HDD.
I dragged my presented HDD to LaCie icon.It shows that it's in the LaCie but as an ALIAS. Does this means that if the set crashes
I will have no back-up even though it showed in the LaCie?
Just don't know too much do I?


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Dell UltraSharp 2208FP Wide screen, Digital, Microtek ScanMaker4, LaCie 500GB External HDD