IUWEsoft File Backup Wizard Pro User Guide

IUWEsoft File Backup Wizard Pro is a professional tool designed for users to perform file backup, drive backup, system backup and create bootable media for data and data on computers, external hard drives, flash drives, USB drives and other drives. The system creates security protection to prevent data loss due to deletion, system crash, or any accident.

How to Back up Files from Hard Drive

IUWEsoft File Backup Wizard Pro supports backup of selected files from any portable or hard drive present on Windows PC. This is the best way to directly back up important files without the need for large storage. It saves the backed up files into a package file so you can restore them when needed. Here's how to back up files from hard drives and portable storage devices.

Step 1. In the main window of File Backup Wizard Pro, click "File Backup". After then you'll be led to the directory or all hard drives of your computer.

If you need to back up files from portable storage devices, like USB drive, flash drive or any other external hard drive, please connect the device with your computer first, letting your computer detect it. And File Backup Wizard Pro will detect it as well.

Step 2. In the directory of all hard drives of your computer, you need to select the file(s) you want to back up and click the "Start" button on the top right. It will take a few seconds for the software to back up all files, and put them in a compressed image file package, saving your time and storage.

Recovery: if you've deleted the files accidentally, you can click the Recovery button to use the backup file to recover the lost or deleted files.

Backup settings: there are 3 types of backup. You need to select the right option that meets your requirement.

Full Backup: it means File Backup Wizard Pro backs up all the files in a partition or on a disk by copying all disk sectors with data to the backup image file. It is the safest way to backup files, but it needs more storage.

Incremental Backup: it backs up only the changed data, but they only back up the data that has changed since the last backup. Please differentiate the data from the file itself. You can see files manually, but you may not be able to see data of a file visually.

Differential Backup: it backs up only the files that changed since the last full back. Put it into a simple word: no change then there is no backup generated.

Edit Backup: as the image backup file, you can edit it by adding or decrease files, delete the backup, locate the image, check image or delete the image.

How to back up files easily and effectively

1: Arrange important files into folders. This way, when you select files to back up, you only need to select the specified folder. It saves you time and avoids data loss while searching for files to backup.

2: Please set the storage location to an external hard disk. Why are you doing this? You know, you just want to keep your important files safe, so you make backups. Saving backups to an external hard drive is much safer than saving backup files to your computer.

3: If you update files or folders regularly, I highly recommend enabling automatic backup. Once set up, it will back up regularly in the background, eliminating the need for you to do manual backups. And it will automatically delete previous backups as well.

How to Clone Drive (Backup Drive)

If there is an important drive you want to back up, the best option is to clone it rather than trying to transfer files from it. You know, especially it is driven with hundreds of GB storage. If you try to clone a drive, it saves you time and needs less storage. Here are the steps:

Step 1. If you need to clone a drive from or to an external hard drive, please connect the external hard drive with your computer first, letting your computer detects the external hard drive. If you only want to clone a drive on your computer and save the clone file to another drive on your computer, then skip the steps and forward to step 2.

Step 2. From IUWEsoft File Backup Wizard Pro main window, click "Backup Drive" and then select the drive you want to backup.

Step 3. Before letting the software to a backup drive, please set it up as where the path is to save the backup file, whether to set it up as automatic backup, or sector by sector backup. After arranging everything, click "Start". Generally, it takes a few minutes to back up a drive since there are so many files there. Be patient.

How to Back up System

Computer operating system is very important. It determines how your computer performs. If your computer system crashed, then you need to set it to factory settings or reinstall it. The good news is that, if you've backed it up before, then you can restore the system easily. Here is how to back up the system:

Step 1. Connect the external hard drive with your computer first if you want to back up the system to your external hard drive. If not, just forget it. In the main window, click "System Backup".

Step 2. Set up the system backup path, name backup file name, and whether to set up the automatic backup, sector by sector backup, etc. When it is done, click "Start" on the top right of the software. It will take longer to the backup computer system.

Step 3. When the backup is done, you can set up the preferences for the system backup file.