Clickfree/netbook

[Lucy-loo]

I've got a clickfree and backed up my main computer, with no problems, bought my son one for Christmas, as he wants to back up the stuff off his Samsung netbook, mainly photos but it just wont work on it, I've tried it with my net book, and although it is on the computer, the clickfree screen doesn't come up.

Does anybody know if they dont work with netbooks, or are we doing something wrong
Just tried he my sons clickfree on my main computer and it works, so must be the netbook

 

[ERICS MUM]

This is very spooky, I'd like to know the answer to this too.

I'm backing up my Samsung NC10 netbook at the moment onto a memory stick and I'm thinking of getting the click free as it seems a bit more substantial and "permanent". Let's hope someone can help us.

Linda :mysmilie_348:

 

[Simon Sims]

They work on Netbooks - i know that for sure.
Maybe restart the Netbook?
Is your son logged in as Administrator on his netbook?

Maybe someone with experience can point OP in right direction?

 

[tvshopper]

Are you sure the netbook is running a compatible Operating System? Not all netbooks come with Windows...it may be Linux based (like Ubuntu, etc) - I'm not sure on the compatibility with Windows 7 as only XP and Vista are listed at their site - if it supports Vista, I would have thought Win7 should be okay - but you never know...

tvs

 

[Miss QVC]

I use my click free on my xp laptop, my vista laptop and my xp netbook. It must a fault with the netbook. My netbook is the Toshiba which was a TSV in August.

 

[Olivia]

I had a problem with my click free with my old PC , Dell XP, and my newer PC, HP but okay with my Dell laptop. It just didn't recognise it and just didn't do anything. I went onto CLick free website and there is advice there on what to do, I'm not techy enough to tell you here for fear of getting it wrong, but I did get the Click free working on both eventually. Something to do with Autorun I think, but I just kept trying things till it worked. It also took longer than the 50 seconds they say, one of their pieces of advice is to leave it in for more than 3 minutes which I did. I then restarted the PC , as it still didn't recognise it and after the restart it was fine. As long as the OS is compatible, and that is on the website, you should eb able to fidn a way . Hope it helps.

 

[Lucy-loo]

I had a problem with my click free with my old PC , Dell XP, and my newer PC, HP but okay with my Dell laptop. It just didn't recognise it and just didn't do anything. I went onto CLick free website and there is advice there on what to do, I'm not techy enough to tell you here for fear of getting it wrong, but I did get the Click free working on both eventually. Something to do with Autorun I think, but I just kept trying things till it worked. It also took longer than the 50 seconds they say, one of their pieces of advice is to leave it in for more than 3 minutes which I did. I then restarted the PC , as it still didn't recognise it and after the restart it was fine. As long as the OS is compatible, and that is on the website, you should eb able to fidn a way . Hope it helps.

Thankyou for this and finally we have got it to work, but it did take awhile and had to refer to the webb site, wasn't as easy as it was on my main computer, but at least he has backed up all his photos, reason being the netbook is on the blink so didn't want to lose them all.

 

[BurlyBeaR]

doesnt this rather negate the whole concept of clickfree? especially a theyre so much more expensive than a regular extrnal hard drive? lets face it, if you can troublsehoot your way through a load of techy stuff on their web youre more than capable of copy/pasting your my documents into a folder on an external drive, or running windows own backup programme.
i nearly bought one but i reckon theyre a bit of a rip off really.

 

[sheepdog]

doesnt this rather negate the whole concept of clickfree? especially a theyre so much more expensive than a regular extrnal hard drive? lets face it, if you can troublsehoot your way through a load of techy stuff on their web youre more than capable of copy/pasting your my documents into a folder on an external drive, or running windows own backup programme.
i nearly bought one but i reckon theyre a bit of a rip off really.

The clickfree I bought did take a while to find itself but nontheless, works fine for the person who doesn't have a clue (namely a relative!). One click and it is done for them, no hassles.

As BurlyBear says, if you can think a little bit more creatively then you'll be surprised how easy it is if you already have an external drive. So here is a start: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/setup/learnmore/bott_03july14.mspx.

Sheepdog in "crontab -e" mode

 

[Pinkpussycat]

Well I LOVE my ClickFree, it's idiot-proof when connected to my pc and that's just the right level of technology for me. AND it's bliddy PINK!! :mysmilie_698:

 

[SUPERCOOLWILLOW]

Well I LOVE my ClickFree, it's idiot-proof when connected to my pc and that's just the right level of technology for me. AND it's bliddy PINK!! :mysmilie_698:

i wonder who picked that one for you LOL cheeky

 

[daps]

They are going to get mine back.... I'm sure the guest presenter said on there the other day that it will back up on mac and pc if required. Well it dosn't its one or the other. Its a different interface on the mac, you also cannot schedule back ups like you can on a windows PC.