Backing up hard drive?
 

Hety guys, is there a program to back up your hard drive instead of burning it on a CD?
If you do let me know, and where i can get a copy. thanks.

like putting it onto another hard drive? you need a second drive, then you copy and paste...

External Hard Drive for the WIn!

i don't back anything up, just get a walmart powerstrip and RAID0 ftw

well the problem is the Hard drive on my moms computer is failing, so she's getting a new one. So my best bet is to get an external hard drive, and back everything up on that? then install the new harddrive onto the comp?

well if you're just transfering everything over get the new HDD and you'll be able to transfer, no need for the external

Yes Sir that is the best thing
if her hard drive hasn't already failed

cool, it hasn't failed yet. Thanks for the help guys.

1. Raid 0 is not a substitute for backups
2. You don't need to buy a program (ntbackup.exe is included in windows)
3. You don't necessarily need an external. A cheap internal will work fine if you have the room.
4. Have fun!

whats the quickest way to transfer all the files over to the new hard drive?

Depend what you want to do.

Programs, settings, etc. = backup and restore
Pictures, random files = copy paste

Yea she needs here programs, so i have to back it up ne ways

I hope that walmart power strip has magical backup powers because RAID 0 has no fault tollerance! :) Unless you meant RAID 1.

Like others said, another internal hard drive is a good route. If you learn a bit of Windows scripting you could even setup some jobs to automatically backup your files weekly, daily, etc.

Throw in the other drive and NTBACKUP the sucker.

If the hard drive is failing like you say, keep the computer off til the new one arrives. Dying drives have a limited life span and once it's up they'll never come back.

raid seven for the win...

i was joking around, no fault tollerance + powerstrip known to surge / have faulty grounds

Well since you already have plenty of suggestions, I'll throw another one out there that I have and personally have used.

Its called Acronis True Image. It will make an image of your entire drive, including all documents and current installed programs. You can put those images on cd(s) then when you get the new drive, run them and they will reinstall everything picture perfect just as it was on the old drive. All your documents, programs, everything...will be there. But it does take a little time to backup.

I know my old MP3 played also worked as an external HD, im not sure if you have an iPod but maybe they work the same way, so you could dump it on there...you could also get an external HD and dump it all on there..pretty much what everyone has said

your crazy

ding ding ding. This guy has the answer.

the reason why no1 said that is because he first stated that he DIDNT want to have to use cds ... which that does

http://www.feyrer.de/g4u/

G4U can do something similar to what 05GT was talking about, but it uploads the images to an FTP server. This would require a second PC (for the server), but you can easily setup a server on something like a laptop.

Gee....forgive me for not further explaining.

With the program I mentioned, you can also store the images on another drive.

OR as cburwell stated with the program he mentioned, with Acronis you can also save to a network location.

Keep in mind as you use Acronis to restore your system, you can actually start working after just a few minutes of it restoring...while it continues to full restore everything.

It has features such as rollback, incase you did a boo boo lol.
It can also create a "hidden" partition on your new drive where it can store an image that if your system ever crashes, at the touch of a button it can restore from that partition, Windows...along with everything else you had.

Ok I'm done ranting. Hope I explained it well. If not, they have a website lol.

Tanks for the advice again guys.