win7 back up for faulty system.

ThriceNightly · 17 Oct 2011 at 18:05

Back story: my neighbours system (purchased from ocuk last december) has been randomly bsod since purchase. The hard drive was replaced 3 times and was thought to have cured the issue but my neighbour is still experiencing frequent bsod mainly when surfing the net

.....i'm going round this week to check for updates for all drivers and run all the tests: memory hard drive etc but ultimately i think we are going to send the system back under warranty.

My question is that i want to backup my neighbours data using the w7 built-in utility

1. will it back-up ok on a system with bsod issues?
2. how easy is it to use the back-up on the repaired system
3. if the system is replaced i.e mobo will there be issues using the back-up data
4. as per 3 will there be issues using the existing oem w7 ?

thanks for any help on this.

TWiNKLeT0Es · 18 Oct 2011 at 00:45

Does the system have a Western Digital Hard Drive installed? If not do you have access to a Western Digital External Drive? http://support.wdc.com/product/downloaddetail.asp?swid=119&wdc_lang=en

Failing that i would use Clonezilla : http://clonezilla.sourceforge.net/

Destination · 18 Oct 2011 at 03:31

Probably a memory or mobo issue if bsod while surfing on seven.

ThriceNightly · 18 Oct 2011 at 17:12

TWiNKLeT0Es said:
Does the system have a Western Digital Hard Drive installed? If not do you have access to a Western Digital External Drive? http://support.wdc.com/product/downloaddetail.asp?swid=119&wdc_lang=en

Failing that i would use Clonezilla : http://clonezilla.sourceforge.net/

thanks for reply, yes we have access to a brand new western digital external hard drive which was purchased for the back up...

question - there are quite a few features in the acronis software - which one would be best to use for creating a cloned image and transfering to a new system.

how easy is it to move the cloned image onto a replacement system drive i.e onto say a samsung drive?

Hikari Kisugi said:
Probably a memory or mobo issue if bsod while surfing on seven.

i'm also thinking it's hardware related. the system has bsod since delivery and despite 3 hard drive replacements.

what is the situation regarding the copy of oem w7 (also purchased from overclockers) if the mobo is replaced?