Backup Help

JGrant1285 · 18 Jan 2008 at 08:08

Hi All,

I need some advice & confirmation.

I have my desktop PC and it has 2 hard drives installed. The first one has OS intalled & any other software files, the 2nd one has all my music, pictures, videos, college work, and other stuff on.

The 2nd drive is about 120GB, and 112GB is being used.
Roughly i have:
70GB in my 'Music Folder'
And the rest is scattered across various other folders.

Now, i'm wanting to Format both of these hard drives and do a complete,full, clean installation. I have a 250GB external Seagate HD and i want to transfer everything over onto this external drive.

i have tried just copy and pasting, but that is going to take far too long, and also, i got an error message copying one of the files at the beginning, so this stopped the copying process. As i wasnt present at the time & i had left it copying the files across, i wasted about 10 hours trying to copy.

I know there are programs like Norton Ghost etc, which are supposedly good for backing up, but i have been looking at using Clonezilla. Will this do what i want to do?

Any advice is welcome, please help me out as i'm off work today and ideally want to get something done

JGrant1285 · 18 Jan 2008 at 10:43

BUMP, can anybody offer some advice?

MarcLister · 18 Jan 2008 at 11:59

You could try TeraCopy (free) if you want to try and copy stuff over. I used it on my old laptop at home over Xmas and was quite surprised with it.

Haven't used CloneZilla but it'll do what you want or you could buy Acronis TrueImage which is much preferred to Norton Ghost. You can download buy it from the Acronis site if you want to get on with this today.

jbloggs · 18 Jan 2008 at 12:27

You could use either DiskWizard or MaxBlast which is basically Acronis True Image Home 10 (to use either of these one of the HDDs in your system MUST be either a Seagate or Maxtor), with a couple of very minor features removed to do your cloning/backups...

Supertaff · 18 Jan 2008 at 12:38

If your prepared to pay for software to do this I'd use Acronis True image. Currently v11 is the most upto date, but older versions should work for you as well and you might be able to get v10 at a discount price these days.

Taff

Tomsk · 18 Jan 2008 at 12:47

jbloggs said:
You could use either DiskWizard or MaxBlast which is basically Acronis True Image Home 10 (to use either of these one of the HDDs in your system MUST be either a Seagate or Maxtor), with a couple of very minor features removed to do your cloning/backups...

For Seagate DiskWizard to work the required Seagate or Maxtor drive can be connected via USB and does not need to be either the source or destination disk.