External Hard Drives

[gigabyte06]

I am going to purchase an external hd for my desktop and laptop,so I can backup all my files including the OS. I think that I still need a program such as Acronis to do this? Is this correct?Thanks

 

[drum]

You can use Acronis if you like. You can also use Windows ntbackup. I have found this to be very affective as well.

 

[gigabyte06]

Can that be used with xp?

 

[drum]

yep, 2000 and XP. I think Vista has something that you can use a .bkf (backup file extension) to import in but you can't backup Vista with it.
In XP just go Start- Run- ntbackup and go through and setup what you want backed up and where. pretty simple to use.

 

[gigabyte06]

Thanks

 

[mancunian]

Do yourself a favour, buy an external enclosure and a standard hard disk to put in it.

Much more flexible solution.

 

[gigabyte06]

Yeah.I was thinking of doing that.