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Hard drive backup ?

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SHENDERS20622

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Hi. I need to back up my entire laptop,about 60 gigs and am looking for suggestions as to what to buy to do this.I assume it will be an external drive and I need to restore an exact copy on to another new ,blank drive on a new machine.
Do these back up devices use software that will allow me to restore completely to a new drive,DriveImage etc?
Thanks for your help.
 
It's fairly easy to do, you can back up to Tape (not applicable for you probably), CD (Too many discs), DVD (Cheapest and if you get good discs pretty reliable), External HD (Easiest, but more expensive than DVD) and other methods.

You can either buy a program like norton ghost to do it (i did) or use a freeware alternative there's plenty of them around. Some HD utilites might allow you to do it too.

I like ghost, nice and easy to use and it works quite well. It would let you do everything you want/or need.

There are some external HDs that ship with backup software on them, but i'm not all that impressed with them myself.
 
Thanks Bob. So with Ghost I can re-install an exact image of whats on my laptop to a new machine,after installing an operating system of course.
 
Yes, ghost copies the hard drive completely, which is very nice and easy, though I tend to like a fresh format after a year or two of collecting internet waste.

If you need 60gigs of stuff transferred, I recommend ghost. If you have the time, I like the DVD burning method, pretty fast with 16X drives now.
 
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Meaning I do not need to install an operating system on the new machine, just use Ghost only.
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The one flaw with that plan, is that while your OS will be cloned exactly to the new machine, but unless the new machine has identical hardware to the old machine..it most likely isn't going to boot..of course you could try to do a repair install in that case, but no gurantees.
 
The one flaw with that plan, is that while your OS will be cloned exactly to the new machine, but unless the new machine has identical hardware to the old machine..it most likely isn't going to boot..of course you could try to do a repair install in that case, but no gurantees.
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Not booting is not too good,any other suggestions on how to do this or what procedure have you used.
 
Originally posted by: SHENDERS20622
The one flaw with that plan, is that while your OS will be cloned exactly to the new machine, but unless the new machine has identical hardware to the old machine..it most likely isn't going to boot..of course you could try to do a repair install in that case, but no gurantees.
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Not booting is not too good,any other suggestions on how to do this or what procedure have you used.
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I'd like to know this also. Would setting the system to use safe mode drivers remedy this?
 
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