INdex.dat causing bail-out of HDD Back-up

posted by Georgieboy01 on Apr 19, 2008

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I am trying to take a back-up of my HDD using a Freecom 120BG External Hard Disk Drive. Model number: FHD-2 Pro.
When the device finds a index.dat file it stops updating my files on my external hard drive. Is there any way I can get around this problem?

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posted on Apr 23, 2008

Flyback

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Index.dat is not required, simply do not include it in your backup..windows will recreate the file automatically. It is created by the file indexing service for faster searches, etc.

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Flyback

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