Best way to backup OS drive?

drumdogg

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I'm wanting to backup my hard drive with my OS on it. What is the best way to do it and what software would be best?

I have an external hard drive and would be backing it up onto it.
 
If your running windows 7 as per your Sig, it has a built in back up utility that works perfectly, you can even mount the stored images as Virtual Hard Drives so that you can restore individual files if required :)
 
UKDTweak said:
If your running windows 7 as per your Sig, it has a built in back up utility that works perfectly, you can even mount the stored images as Virtual Hard Drives so that you can restore individual files if required :)
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I second this. The days of using Acronis True image and Norton Ghost are long gone. Windows 7 own utility is far simpler to understand, practical, minimal and just works! I've tried it out from recovering from an image and it works perfectly.
 
I've even used the built in backup of Windows 7 to backup my 4 x 40GB RAID 0 array and move it to a single large drive

Worked fine!

I even backed it up over the network to my server - brilliant
 
Ok guys i have backed up the drive. When you talk about mounting it as a virtual hard drive do you mean using the likes of daemon tools to open it, as you would with a .iso file??

Cause i have tried that and it wouldnt work.
 
I use Acronis - that way I can be back up and running in hours and not worrying about "what was that app I used to do such and such" or "how was that configured" etc for weeks on end!
 
To mount the image as a virtual drive, open Disc Management, there you will find the option to select the image and mount it, no need for third party software :)
 
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