- Jun 22, 2001
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I'm looking to securely compress my files and back it up to an online storage. Which format do you use that's proven to be reliable and secure?
Windows 7 has a built-in zip software but I am leery of it. I've used it to decompress a bios file which seemingly went OK until I actually tried to update my motherboard bios. The motherboard complained the bios file was incompatible. I then used Winzip to decompress the same file and my motherboard accepted the bios file. How do you explain that? Somehow Windows zip tool modified the bios file so it wasn't one-to-one.
Windows 7 has a built-in zip software but I am leery of it. I've used it to decompress a bios file which seemingly went OK until I actually tried to update my motherboard bios. The motherboard complained the bios file was incompatible. I then used Winzip to decompress the same file and my motherboard accepted the bios file. How do you explain that? Somehow Windows zip tool modified the bios file so it wasn't one-to-one.