Backup software

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Jay Stevens

I need to backup my hard drive while installing a new, larger, one in my
laptop.
I want everything to be backed up exactly as it currently is and then for
everything, programs, settings etc. to be transferred to the new drive.
I have an external I could use.

I've read some shady reviews about Norton Ghost so I wanted to keep my eyes
open for a different backup program.
What else is out there I should consider?

Thanks

Jay
 
Jay said:
I need to backup my hard drive while installing a new, larger, one in my
laptop.
I want everything to be backed up exactly as it currently is and then for
everything, programs, settings etc. to be transferred to the new drive.
I have an external I could use.

I've read some shady reviews about Norton Ghost so I wanted to keep my eyes
open for a different backup program.
What else is out there I should consider?

Thanks

Jay
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Symantec (or Norton) Ghost is pretty much a standard disk
imaging application. An alternative to consider would be
TrueImage from Acronis.
 
Jay Stevens said:
I need to backup my hard drive while installing a new, larger, one in my
laptop.
I want everything to be backed up exactly as it currently is and then for
everything, programs, settings etc. to be transferred to the new drive.
I have an external I could use.

I've read some shady reviews about Norton Ghost so I wanted to keep my
eyes open for a different backup program.
What else is out there I should consider?
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If this is a one time thing then the free software supplied by most hard
drive manufacturers works fine. Ghost, True Image and other disk
cloning/imaging software have many more functions and work with removable
media, external drives, etc.

Kerry
 
Edward said:
TrueImage is not 'backup software' but ' imaging software', there is
a difference. For backup software you could try NovaBackup.
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Edward, you aren't correct!
Acronis True Image is one of the best backup software.
I guess you simply don't understand the sense of these two words.
True Image creats an exact image of HDD, but also you may use another
tool exactly serves for copying one HDD to another.
Just plug new HDD as slave> click "Clone Hard Drive" and follow the
prompts. After that switch it to master and you'll get the perfect HDD
in few minutes. It will contain everything from old HDD, and will run
correctly (OS, apps and other stuff).
It was tried by my own experience.
 
Edward, you aren't correct!
Acronis True Image is one of the best backup software.
I guess you simply don't understand the sense of these two words.
True Image creats an exact image of HDD, but also you may use another
tool exactly serves for copying one HDD to another.
Just plug new HDD as slave> click "Clone Hard Drive" and follow the
prompts. After that switch it to master and you'll get the perfect HDD
in few minutes. It will contain everything from old HDD, and will run
correctly (OS, apps and other stuff).
It was tried by my own experience.
Click to expand...

dreamtheater:
Edward is most definitely correct!

ATI *is* a disk imaging program that, in effect, can create a bit-for-bit
copy of one's HD. As such, it is similar to other disk imaging programs such
as Symantec's Norton Ghost and Casper XP. Of course, in carrying out its
function of "cloning" the contents of one drive to another drive it has the
ultimate effect of "backing up" a drive. Other backup software such as (I
assume) the one mentioned by Edward merely copy (for the most part) data
that the user has created. They do not "copy" the operating system nor (for
the most part) programs and applications to another drive or removable
media. I would be among the first to agree that disk imaging programs such
as ATI are, for many or most users, an ideal "backup system"; however, other
backup programs certainly have a place for many users.
Anna
 
What I think that everyone is missing is the fact that you have LAPTOP. Its
not real easy to plug a HDD into a laptop as a slave drive. What I do is....

Get a network bootable CDROM or Floppy disk...
http://www.netbootdisk.com/bootcd.htm is a great one because it auto detects
your NIC

So boot from this disk with your laptop plugged into the network - it should
detect your NIC and get IP from DHCP and boom.... then you map a drive to a
share somewhere on your network (put ghost.exe in there)

run ghost to make and image of your HDD on your laptop then put the new HDD
in and do the same thing with the boot disk only restore the image you made
from the network share.

I use Ghost 2003.... works every time for me.
 
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