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    Back-up Options

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by NAS Ghost, Mar 27, 2008.

  1. NAS Ghost

    NAS Ghost Notebook Deity

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    Ok ive recently been having troubles with my laptop and i also so saw a thread somewhere on this forum stating that it was possible to back up your hdd to another partition. Im wondering how to do this and how it works?
     
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    it works fine

    what OS do you have??

    If you have vista ultimate, you can use it's tool

    if not, I really like Acronis True Image Home 11....... you can download the free trial and use it!! Great for backing up an OS or parttion to another partiton or hard drive!!
     
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    Well i mean for example, if its a clone on another partition, how do you use it? I have Windows Vista Home Premium. I know Acronis can back up/clone hdds, but id like something that can be cloned to an unused partition that i can just use to immediately recover my laptop should it crash again.
     
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    captainpoch Notebook Enthusiast

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    most of these programs have an option to create a copy of your current system, which can be retrieved with a recovery dvd or sth...

    as for a partition to save it too... although for a just "messed up" windows that is all right, I'd always use a different hard drive, prob one that isn't connected to your machine all the time, in case you catch a nasty virus or hard drive failure..
     
    captainpoch, Mar 27, 2008
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