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    How the heck you backup the partion???

    Discussion in 'VAIO / Sony' started by racing2khaos, Jun 20, 2007.

  1. racing2khaos

    racing2khaos Notebook Guru

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    i could see it in my disk management but i cant acces to back it up????
     
    racing2khaos, Jun 20, 2007
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    I copied the whole image of the disc onto an external HDD I had lying around.

    Then I wiped everything and removed the hidden partition for a clean install. Can't remember the program I used for the image transfer, but will tell you when I get home if you ask.
     
    TheBugMan, Jun 20, 2007
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    I use norton ghost for that
     
    Valkyrie, Jun 20, 2007
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    if i use the sony recovery center in help and support and it says create rocovery disk is that the same??? wouldnt that be better instead of ghosting it???
     
    racing2khaos, Jun 21, 2007
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  5. TheBugMan

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    The first thing I did was make recovery discs.

    The reason I made an image of the whole HDD was because I was going to put that image back on the VAIO if my tinkering didn't work.

    I cannot find the program I used for ghosting but it wasn't Norton cause I hate Norton junk.
     
    TheBugMan, Jun 21, 2007
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    I would recommend Acronis True Image.
     
    ASH148, Jun 21, 2007
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  7. TheBugMan

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    That is what I used (^_^)
     
    TheBugMan, Jun 21, 2007
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