Best Way To Back Up Two IDE Drives??

[2L84SLEEP]

Hi folks

I have two IDE drives inside my PC, the first (C Drive) holds all my software, spreadsheets, photos etc and the second (D Drive) holds all my MP3's. The first drive is 20GB in size with roughly 6GB used at the moment and the second drive is also 20GB in size with roughly 5GB used. I am now just looking at the best way of backing these up as there is beginning to become quite a lot on these I wouldnt want to lose. I was thing along the lines of an external HDD but I have no idea which ones to go for and also if I would need additional software to do this? Apologies if questions like this have been asked before and thanks for any help!!

 

[locutus12]

if your looking for external storage just buy an external USB 2.0 HDD caddy and plonk what ever drive you like inside it, you can buy the caddys for about £15 now.

cheaper option is just to burn it all off to DVD.

 

[2L84SLEEP]

Thanks Locutus12, I have been reading some folk talk about Norton Ghost and I quite liked the idea that if the main C Drive failed, just having a direct replacement, or do I have completley the wrong idea of that?

Thanks

 

[semi-pro waster]

Thanks Locutus12, I have been reading some folk talk about Norton Ghost and I quite liked the idea that if the main C Drive failed, just having a direct replacement, or do I have completley the wrong idea of that?

Norton Ghost is simply a piece of software, you still need another physical location to store the data onto so either an internal or external backup device whether that be DVDs, hard drives, tapes or something different.

Ghost is I believe pretty simple to use, if you back-up your main drive onto an external hard drive (in a caddy) then you can restore from that easily enough I think. Like locutus12 says just buy a suitable caddy and hard drive then it is straightforwards