hard drive backup

[Doum]

The one from Seagate will do an image. It's even powered by Acronis. I
don't have a Western Digital but I assume it's the same with them.

The one from WD is a limited version of Acronis True Image that won't do
incremental backups and need a Western Digital hard disk to install (can
be external, USB, eSata, FireWire or internal).

It will clone and do images.

 

[Doum]

=?Utf-8?B?TWFyayBBZGFtcw==?= <[email protected]>
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You said this was a laptop. Laptops only have one hard drive.

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My laptop has two internal hard drives

 

[Daave]

=?Utf-8?B?TWFyayBBZGFtcw==?= <[email protected]>
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My laptop has two internal hard drives

I was waiting for someone to say that.

 

[Bob]

Two internal hard drives or two partitions?

=?Utf-8?B?TWFyayBBZGFtcw==?= <[email protected]>
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My laptop has two internal hard drives

 

[Twayne]

In

I've got a Dell laptop running XP, and after running a
diagnostic test, got error code 0146 that hard drive was
corrupted. Dell is sending me a new one, which I'll have to
self-install.

I can't remember backing up my entire system ever, so my
question is, how should I go about saving all my settings
and programs on the current hard drive? I've got a backup
drive of 20gb, so I'm guessing I should put it all there,
and also a few flash drives, but what method should I use?
Should I go to the C:/ drive system properties and select
the backup option or do stuff manually?

Go ahead and use XP's Backup capability; it'll so a fine job for you. Read
Help and as long as you have a floppy drive, it'll tell you how to get
everything restored back the way it used to be.

More importantly, if you have a new drive coming, it should have "cloning"
instructions with it, which is an easy way to put all the data onto your new
disk. If they don't include them, give them a call and ask where they are.
Normally they are downloadable from the drive manufacturer's web site and
should be available from where the drive is coming from too.
This way you have no problem with space requirements, etc., it's all
taken care of for you during the clone process.

It'll take you a lot longer to get a copy of Ghost or Acronis TI, install it
and learn them than it will to simply use XP's default backup program which
lacks only bells & whistles compared to the other two, which are BTW
excellent programs. But w/r to backup, they all back up the same data and
restore the same data. It's a decision only you can make though.

HTH,

Twayne`

 

[Twayne]

In

I've got a Dell laptop running XP, and after running a
diagnostic test, got error code 0146 that hard drive was
corrupted. Dell is sending me a new one, which I'll have to
self-install.

I can't remember backing up my entire system ever, so my
question is, how should I go about saving all my settings
and programs on the current hard drive? I've got a backup
drive of 20gb, so I'm guessing I should put it all there,
and also a few flash drives, but what method should I use?
Should I go to the C:/ drive system properties and select
the backup option or do stuff manually?

Use the backup option. Back up the boot drive letter.

HTH,

Twayne`

 

[Twayne]

In

If the machine still runs, Go out and buy Acronis True
Image and a 1 TB USB hard drive. Boot the machine to the
Acronis disk and make an image of your computer to the USB
drive. When the new drive arrives from Dell, restore that
image to the new drive. It might cost a little more to do
it this way, but it is so much easier than reinstalling
everything, it's worth it.

Why not use the drive mfr's clone program? Much faster & easier.

 

[Twayne]

In

Alias, Bob.

It's been awhile since I've used these utilities. Since
I've gotten Acronis I've not had to use them. I know they
can clone drives, but can they make an image? The OP has a
laptop and since two hard drives cannot be installed at the
same time, a USB enclosure would be needed to clone to the
new drive. This would also eliminate the necessity of
purchasing the external hard drive. But, by buying Acronis
and the USB drive, the OP could replace the failing drive
and also have a reliable backup system. Costs more, but now
he can backup everything all in one shot.

Exactly as can be done with XP's backup program.
Why not use the drive mfr's clone program? Much faster & easier.

 

[Doum]

"Bob" <[email protected]> écrivait september.org:

Hard drives, I replaced the original 160GB Hitachi by a 320 GB WD and added
a second 320 GB WD in the provided space. I wanted 7200 rpm drives and 320
GB were the biggest 7200 rpm available 2.5" drives at that time.

http://img256.imageshack.us/i/photo026k.jpg/

Unfortunatly, the cable for hooking it up was very hard to get by (and
quite expensive), the online store having it were in Europe and wouldn't
ship to North America. I managed to get it when my niece did a trip to
Portugal. I think it should have been supplied with the laptop.

http://img31.imageshack.us/i/50tl701009.jpg/

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

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My laptop has two internal hard drives

I don't want to say you're wrong for sure, since there may be some
that do have two hard drives, but I've never seen one with two drives.

How do you know yours has two drives? It's much more likely that you
have one hard drive with two partitions on it.

 

[Doum]

I don't want to say you're wrong for sure, since there may be some
that do have two hard drives, but I've never seen one with two drives.

How do you know yours has two drives? It's much more likely that you
have one hard drive with two partitions on it.

I know it has two physical drives because I've installed the second one
myself.

 

[Doum]

I know it has two physical drives because I've installed the second one
myself.

See that picture:

http://img256.imageshack.us/i/photo026k.jpg/

I am holding the drive support in my hand and you can see where it goes.

On the lower right corner of the pic, you can see part of the system drive.

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

I know it has two physical drives because I've installed the second one
myself.

OK, then I withdraw the implication of what I said. But it is very
unusual.

 

[Mark Adams]

In

Why not use the drive mfr's clone program? Much faster & easier.

I see your point. Why pay for the fully featured version, when you can get
the watered down one for free? Why buy Windows when you can get Linnux for
free? You set me straight, Twayne. I'll be damned if I'll pay for any
software again.

 

[Guest]

First things first...
Once your clean install is up and running, buy one of these:

http://www.a-power.com/product-9403-817-1

or something similar.

Hi Newman,

I've been following this thread as I need to replace drives on both a laptop
and a desktop pc.
The usb-sata etc adaptor seems a very useful device, but after 'googling'
for them here in the UK I am a bit unsure what to buy. There are many
different ones on offer and a wide range of prices. Also there are warnings
from some users about some of them containing faulty chips that can corrupt
data. The last thing anyone wants in such a device is that kind of
unreliability! Some of the advertisers do specify which chip set is used,
but others do not, so 'buying something similar' is not proving to be as
straight forward as expected.

Does anyone have advice of which models/suppliers are fully reliable and
safe, and available in the UK at a reasonable price?

Thanks,

S

 

[Chuck]

I don't want to say you're wrong for sure, since there may be some
that do have two hard drives, but I've never seen one with two drives.

How do you know yours has two drives? It's much more likely that you
have one hard drive with two partitions on it.

HP Pavilion 9650us "multimedia" Vista laptops have two 250G hard drives.
They were sold nation wide by Office Depot in the 2007-8 time frame.
They are somewhat slow by today's standards, due to a less than optimum
MBD design.

 

[MN]

Mark,
What is the Link for Hitachi ? I have an Hitachi SATA drive.

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[Doum]

"MN" <[email protected]> écrivait

Here's the download link for various hard drive utilities for Hitachi
HDs.

http://www.hitachigst.com/support/downloads/

They don't offer the free stripped down version of Acronis True Image
like Seagate and Western Digital do. You could buy the full featured
version from http://www.acronis.com/ ,or many hi-tech or office stores
(online or not).

Hitachi don't seem to offer cloning software either but do a Google
search with "free cloning software" and you will get many results.

HTH

Mark,
What is the Link for Hitachi ? I have an Hitachi SATA drive.

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[Jim P]

OK, then I withdraw the implication of what I said. But it is very
unusual.

I have a Toshiba Satellite A135 with two hard drives, from the factory.

 

[Eddie]

Bob said this on 5/25/2010 11:25 AM:

IIRC Acronis offers a free trial too for 15 days. You can use that
and if you like it buy it later.
I own Acronis now and use it regularly to make images on a 1TB usb and
feel good that I've got all my work backed up and can reset my machine
at any time in 20 minutes or so.

Acronis is still freely available on the net; you just gotta look.
Ed.