Clickfree Automatic Backup 250 GB USB 2.0 Portable External Hard Drive 225-1003-100 (Cherry Red)

by Clickfree

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 6 x 3 x 6.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.4 ounces
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B001JIBOLQ
• Item model number: 225-1003-100
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (46 customer reviews)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: May 17, 2005

Product Description

CLICKFREE 250GB AUTOBACKUP HD-EXTERNAL 10 PC CAPABLE-EA

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

32 of 32 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars If you hate to backup but know you should..., December 28, 2008

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Dale Nihiser - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Clickfree Automatic Backup 250 GB USB 2.0 Portable External Hard Drive 225-1003-100 (Cherry Red) (Personal Computers)

We have four computers in use right now. This device works exactly the way it supposed to. Simply plug it into the usb port on each pc and let it do its thing. Now the files for all four computers are backed up including years of digital pictures and hard to replace music files. Subsequent backups take only a few moments. Price on Amazon is a little high compared to QVC. Overall, I'm very pleased with the product. If you've been putting off backing up your hard drives because the task is intimidating, the Click Free will be a welcome friend.

44 of 48 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Who calls THIS a backup?, May 15, 2009

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Larry Stevenson "grindbbs" (San Jacinto, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Clickfree Automatic Backup 250 GB USB 2.0 Portable External Hard Drive 225-1003-100 (Cherry Red) (Personal Computers)

I see a lot of people who think this is a great thing for backups, I hope none of them ever have a hard drive meltdown! I have over 14gb on my system and this backup(?) thinks it did a good job by backing up just over 3mb of stuff...I could easily stick that on CD's for a few pennies!
Unless they make a way to do a -real- total system backup they should be required to remove the word "backup" from this thing completely. I am most disgusted with myself for falling for this in the first place. And good luck downloading the "manual.pdf" from their website, hope you're not stuck with a dialup connection as we are here.

May 18, 2009 update;
Well I jumped the gun! The option isn't right up front where it belongs but one -can- do a total system backup with this Clikfree drive. The following is how to do it, (This gets 4 stars now);

1. Plug in the ClickFree device to start the program.
2. Once you get the Welcome Screen (where it starts to count down from 25)
click on the Options button on the lower left hand corner.
3. From the Options window click on Change Backup Settings.
4. Ignore Step 1 and make no changes, then click on Next.
5. Ignore step 2 and make no changes, then click on Next.
6. In step 3, Put a checkmark beside "my computer" or "computer" if you have Vista). Then click on Next.
7. Click on Close to the Change my Backup Settings window and then Click on Close to Options window.
8. Allow the backup to start.

This method will ensure the data you are looking to back up is saved.

Please note: That if your computer does fail you will still need your
Windows Recovery CD to install your operating system. Also, you will need
the CD's from your programs so that they could be re-installed in the event of a computer failure. However, following this method will backup every single file on your computer.

14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I Read the Manual, May 19, 2009

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Tool Guy (Idaho) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Clickfree Automatic Backup 250 GB USB 2.0 Portable External Hard Drive 225-1003-100 (Cherry Red) (Personal Computers)

Before I bought this I read the reviews and some concerned me that I would not be able to backup some of my files. This is exactly what happened, so I got online thinking that I would talk to customer service, but to my suprise I did not have to, I simply read the online manual and in a very easy to understand explaination I found out what I needed to know and backed up everyone of my files, even the ones with the uncommon extensions, like .~enc and I did not even have to add this to "other" file extensions. So this little drive does do it all, and by the way I handle our server backkups at work using a far more sophisticated software and it doesn't really offer anything superior to this little backkup. I'll be buying more as needed. Good luck and as has been said thousands of times, when all else fails read the instructions. :-)