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From: Just Trufles Just on 8 Mar 2010 13:54


"Stacey" wrote:

> I hear alot about backing up your system and what to back up. But how do I
> do that?? Do I do it by puchasing a USB flash drive, external hard drive or
> what? I don't have a dvd burner so I can't do it that way. Any help would
> be appreciated it.
> thanks in advance
> --
> Stacey
From: teabag on 8 Mar 2010 16:26
Assuming you have a desktop (tower type) PC.
Buy and fit a second Hard Disk drive - ideally the same size, maybe even the
same make, as your existing Hard Disk.
Genie Backup Manager is a good program for backing up data.
Acronis True Image is a good program for 'cloning' everything on your C
drive to somewhere else.
Use both for best results.

If your PC is a laptop an external hard drive and Genie Backup Manager
should work.
I don't know (for sure) if Acronis 'cloning' will work on a laptop.

There are other programs equivalent to Genie & Acronis.
Backup and cloning can be done without any of these programs but the
processes are more tricky.

teabag




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> "Stacey" wrote:
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>> I hear alot about backing up your system and what to back up. But how do
>> I
>> do that?? Do I do it by puchasing a USB flash drive, external hard drive
>> or
>> what? I don't have a dvd burner so I can't do it that way. Any help
>> would
>> be appreciated it.
>> thanks in advance
>> --
>> Stacey


From: Sardine on 9 Mar 2010 12:15
Just Trufles wrote:
>
> "Stacey" wrote:
>
>> I hear alot about backing up your system and what to back up. But how do I
>> do that?? Do I do it by puchasing a USB flash drive, external hard drive or
>> what? I don't have a dvd burner so I can't do it that way. Any help would
>> be appreciated it.
>> thanks in advance
>> --
>> Stacey

Stacey:
In my experience, the best way is to buy an external hard drive that
connects via USB. I bought a $35 external bay that any SATA drive can be
plugged in to. Next I bought a 750 GB SATA hard drive. Total cost from
Newegg was $125.

Now download the freeware Macrium Reflect software. This is similar to
Acronis True Image which is not freeware. Install this software on your
computer.

Firstly, use the Reflect software to create a bootable CD that you would
use to boot your computer if your system crashes.

Next use Reflect to create a FULL backup IMAGE (not a disk clone) of
your Windows system hard drive. Create this image on the new USB hard
drive. Verify it, using Reflect, to make sure it has no errors. Note:
this external drive will have room for many full images, create a new
one whenever you want to.

Now if you ever crash Windows, or if your C: drive dies, you have a
complete image of your C: drive. You can restore the image you made to a
new C: drive by booting the CD you made. With that CD running you can
restore your image and you are good to go again. You will not have to
re-install Windows or any programs, just restore the full image.

Sardine


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