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profquatermassSep 8th 2008 6:40AM
Take a look at your hard drive manufacturers, they often have a free hard drive backup tool on offer. :-)
The trick with backing up your C: drive is not just doing a file backup process, tonnes of apps do this.
You want Disaster Recovery.
Three scenarios:
1.
You delete a file: This is easy to recover from with any modern free app.
2.
You delete a OS file and the OS dies on you:
You can't run the backup program because it needs the OS to be running. Oh dear how do you recover it?
You could reinstall the OS? But that is boring and very time consuming.
Simple: The backup program has a bootable CD/DVD/USB program that doesn't need Windows/Linux, etc. thus it allows access to the backed up data! So you can recover your files.
3.
You get a corrupted OS or dead hard drive: You need to restore the OS and probably need a new drive.
With Windows this is difficult as you first need to format the drive, install Windows (to be able to run the backup software) and then restore your C: drive on top of the OS. Ah but See the catch?
Most Windows backup programs can't restore over an already running OS.
You need Disaster Recovery Software (DRS). The program builds a CD or DVD with your current version of the program and OS on it and you've got the main backup of the C: on USB mass storage or multiply CD/DVDs/ or another drive.
The program on the DRS CD is bootable. It has its own small OS built in and simply formats hard drive, sucks the data off the USB/other drive/CD/DVDs so your new C: drive has all the original data on it.
You remove CD and reboot the PC and there, your data is restored in the minimum of time and fuss!
If any of these can't do all 3 scenarios, then get one that can. You'll need one at some point. :-))