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Maxtor OneTouch 4 Plus 500GB January 3rd, 2008 | by Josh Norem

Sync
If you’re like us and have both a desktop and a notebook computer, you can use the Maxtor Manager software to sync folders between two computers to make sure both computers have the same files. Once again you can do a simple sync of your personal folder or a custom sync.

You can sync the contents of folders between two computers with the Sync utility.

Safety
The Safety tab is where you prepare for disaster. It’s Maxtor’s Safety Drill software that saves images of your entire hard drive to the OneTouch in case of drive failure. You just install a new hard drive, boot off of the included CD, point the software to the image on the OneTouch, and it’ll completely restore your previous installation of Windows along with all your files.

The Safety tab lets you set up the SafetyDrill software, which copies an image of your hard drive to the OneTouch in case you suffer drive failure.

Security
Have files you don’t want anyone to see? You can hide them from prying eyes via Maxtor encryption, which is activated via the Security tab. Simply enter a password and the Maxtor encryption application opens up, allowing you to drag and drop files and folders into the app to encrypt them on-the-fly. You can also password protect the drive if you don’t want someone other than yourself seeing what’s on the drive.

Here you can open the encryption tool or password-protect the drive.