Duplicate internal on external?

[Smokin Joe]

I have a new Fantom Titanium 120g external HD and want to "mirror" what I have on my internal HD. Looking for the best way to do this, if can be done fairly easy. Remember, I am a DUMMY when working with programs, files and folders!!!

Smoke

 

[tyanni]

Buy Acronis True Image or Norton Ghost and install. Once a day (or schedule it) have it take an image of your entire HDD and store it on the external. All set.

This is assuming you want to be able to just reimage your primary drive if something happens. If all you want to do is backup files\folders, this may be overkill. If you are running XP Pro, you can go to Start Menu - All Programs - Accessories - System Tools - Backup and run NTBackup, which is free and will work fine for what you are doing - just choose the files\folders you want backed up, choose a schedule, and click finish.

Tim

 

[JimPhelpsMI]

Hi, Win 98SE and XP and most others come with a backup program. If it's not loaded it is on the install CD. They will make a single compressed CLONE of the drive. Luck, Jim

 

[Smokin Joe]

Looking at Norton Ghost on their web site it looks like I would need at least a 200 gig HD.
Can this be right??

Smoke