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Hardrive about to fail!!
i think my hard drive is about to fail, what sort of back up sould i make.
i know i will have to reinstall XP and then my vista upgrade if i have to get a new hard drive but can i get all of my setting and regisration back off my backup disk, i may change the hard drive for a faster one soon anyway along with a new mother board and tp alow for further expansion does this count as a new computer or not. i was thinking about getting my new hard drive and then just coping the enitre contents of c but i will have to reinstall of the other software, i dunno if this wil work, maybe i will jsut have to do it the long way unless anyof you guys know any shortcuts -- grapes |
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Hardrive about to fail!!
There are programs to make an image/clone of the drive so that you can
restore it to another hard disk and continue as if nothing happened (except you have a new drive). PowerQuest publishes this type of software; there's also Norton Ghost. I'm sure a quick 'net search will come up with good software (probably even free). If you have an external drive, the backup software that comes with it can also likely make a recovery type of back up. How easy it is to implement the restore varies; some will require a basic OS installation and then the restore will complete the restoration of all your software, windows preferences, favorites, settings, etc. Some will recover you from a total crash. Make sure you get the disk image made before this happens! (limit your use of the pc) "Craig008" wrote: i think my hard drive is about to fail, what sort of back up sould i make. i know i will have to reinstall XP and then my vista upgrade if i have to get a new hard drive but can i get all of my setting and regisration back off my backup disk, i may change the hard drive for a faster one soon anyway along with a new mother board and tp alow for further expansion does this count as a new computer or not. i was thinking about getting my new hard drive and then just coping the enitre contents of c but i will have to reinstall of the other software, i dunno if this wil work, maybe i will jsut have to do it the long way unless anyof you guys know any shortcuts -- grapes |
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Hardrive about to fail!!
On 30-Oct-2007, =?Utf-8?B?SWtpZFVub3Q=?= wrote: there's also Norton Ghost. Norton Ghost has saved the day many times for me. Like setting up a dual o/s boot going pear shaped or H/D failure. Now I use a system C:\ drive, a D:\ data drive, and a USB external backup. First I image C:\ to D:\ then the USB backs up the lot incrementally, since C:\ changes very little this works fine. |