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    Want to do a complete back up of my HP DV 9500 laptop

    Discussion in 'HP' started by vidyaram, Jul 1, 2008.

  1. vidyaram

    vidyaram Notebook Enthusiast

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    I have a windows vista home HP laptop and my laptop's volume stopped working. I was doing a sytem restore to fix it and it was working fine. After some other installation, when I did a system restore to the working state, it is not working anymore. I called HP's customer service and they suggested system recovery and I want to do a back up of my hard drive. I have some programs which I have subscribed to and the settings & don't want to lose that when I go back to the factory settings. I read the forums and found out about driveimagexml. Should I use that or Windows Vista's complete back up of the computer? If I do either one of these, will I be able to get all my programs back or just the operating system?
    I am a newbie and need help!
    Thanks
    Vidyaram
     
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    SP Forsythe Notebook Evangelist

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    First, only vista ultimate has the built in capability to accomplish a full back-up of the entire drive. Home Premium's back-up only will copy data and settings. iI will not copy applications or the windows installation itself.

    I prefer Acronis True Image. I've already had occasion to use Acronis True Image after a disaster in which I had to reformat my HDD. I''m an avid fan of Acronis now. the restoration was fast, easy, and complete.
     
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    vidyaram Notebook Enthusiast

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    Thanks for your response.If you have a good configuration to backup, I understand this will work. Right now, my audio driver is messed up and I want to do a factory install to clear that and then I want all the other programs in my program files and C: to be cloned to my hard drive. Is that possible? I'll try using the trial version of Acronis true image to begin with!
    Thanks in advance
    Vidya
     
    vidyaram, Jul 2, 2008
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