How do I back up a Hard Drive?

Ice Rich

Ice Rich

Ice Rich

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Hi all,

I need to back up a laptop hard drive which has around 20 gigs of contents on 2 partitions onto DVD's.

Whats the best method/programme to use?

Regards,
 
Ice Rich said:
Hi all,

I need to back up a laptop hard drive which has around 20 gigs of contents on 2 partitions onto DVD's.

Whats the best method/programme to use?

Regards,
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You could use Norton Ghost to do that.



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I'm sure there's free stuff out there to do that but i've not found any that work other than ghost for me.
 
As far as I can remember you can set it up so yes, but don't quote me on that. It just creates an image of everything i.e. everything that is installed. Alternatively you can buy a laptop HDD enclosure and turn the HDD into an external HDD and then backup all the stuff on another harddrive.

Kiz
 
Ice Rich said:
Hi there,

Looks like the laptop I am backing up has Norton Ghost already installed. Does it back up everything?

Regards,
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I'm pretty sure it does mate.I only use it to back my system drive up every 2 weeks or so.
 
Ice Rich said:
I need to back up a laptop hard drive which has around 20 gigs of contents on 2 partitions onto DVD's.
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Do you want this to be an "exact copy" so if you have problems in the future then you can get it back up and running with minimal issues?
If so ghost.
Much more hassle to actually get to the files themselves though.
(Ghost Explorer can only look at non-spanned images)

If you want to backup the files themselves, viewable in normal explorer (stick in a DVD, see files) then use Nero + DVD's.
 
Get a Linux live distro such as Knoppix or Ubuntu and then look into the DD command to take a bitwise copy of the drive.
 
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