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    Hard Drive Backup Software

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by bgh10788, Jul 21, 2007.

  1. bgh10788

    bgh10788 Notebook Guru

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    I recently purchased an external hard drive and would like to know if anyone has any recomendations for software I can use to backup my laptop's hard drive (80 GB, external is 250 GB). One thing I really want is to be able to restore my laptop to a certain state off of the external hard drive. Another, but not necessary feature would be the ability to monitor changes to the drive and backup as necessary.

    I have no preferences for specific brands and would like the price to be below $50 if possible. I would appreciate any recomendations.

    Thank you!
     
    bgh10788, Jul 21, 2007
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    http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing/products/trueimage/
     
    CodeMonkeyX, Jul 21, 2007
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    Acronis will do everything you want it to do for you.

    Remember, it is a free download at Seagate if you have a Maxtor or Seagate drive...
     
    Overclocker, Jul 21, 2007
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    Interesting. Where is this download link?
     
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    Acronis is really nice and easy, it can even backup the whole OS
     
    allan_huang, Jul 23, 2007
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    Thank you for your suggestions.

    One quick question, does DiscWizard include all the features of Acronis true image?
     
    bgh10788, Jul 24, 2007
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    I have not used it but from the description it sounds like it will just image your drive and transfer it to another drive. Which is one of the things true image does. But true image has lots of other things like incremental images, document backups, and exploring the images after they are made. I doubt the free version will allow that, but you can always try it first.
     
    CodeMonkeyX, Jul 24, 2007
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    Yeah, I tested out DiscWizard and it didn't really have all the features I really wanted (especially the planned backups) so I went ahead and got Acronis full version. So far I'm really happy with it!
     
    bgh10788, Jul 24, 2007
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