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Backing up a hard drive

  • 16-08-2004 9:12am
    #1
    Repli
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,322 ✭✭✭


    I have a 20gb hard drive with about 8gb in use, I was just wondering is there any way to completely back up everything on the hard drive (like an exact mirror of the hd) onto cd or dvd ? So that if I lose everything on the laptop, I have a 100% exact backup. I have access to a dvd burner - can anyone recommend any software/methods for doing this? thanks


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  • #2
    Ciaran500
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,225 ✭✭✭Ciaran500


    A program likeNorton Ghost will give you a perfect image of the HDD. It will probably be able to compress it to 6gb but it should automatically split it so it will fit on to DVD-r


  • #3
    Tivoli
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,008 ✭✭✭Tivoli


    norton ghost is able to do it, you just install ghost, tell it what you want it to do and reboot the pc, it changes boot.ini to run a dos program in a virtual partition on the reboot

    to make the process a lot faster its best to use partition magic to make a 5 gig partition for windows and you can stick all your easily replacable stuff like game installs in the other partition


    [edit] Dohh! [/edit]


  • #4
    BKtje
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,081 ✭✭✭BKtje


    Norton Ghost also backup all windows system files and oher files needed for an OS to run? Im in a similar siuation and wnna copy my entire OS partition to me new raptor later on so i dont have to reinstall.


  • #5
    BioHazRd
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,088 ✭✭✭BioHazRd


    B-K-DzR wrote:
    Norton Ghost also backup all windows system files and oher files needed for an OS to run? Im in a similar siuation and wnna copy my entire OS partition to me new raptor later on so i dont have to reinstall.

    Yep - it backs up everything, tweaks included ;)

    Bio


  • #6
    BKtje
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,081 ✭✭✭BKtje


    Thanks rich, will try it now in a sec as a partition magic copy didnt work.


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  • #7
    Repli
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,322 ✭✭✭Repli


    Thanks guys
    In the end I used Norton Ghost to make an image of the hard drive, (it compressed 8gb into 4.2gb) so I could burn the image onto a single dvd. :)


  • #8
    Tivoli
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,008 ✭✭✭Tivoli


    do you have a DVD-rw disk, you can blank it and burn a fresh copy every week


  • #9
    delly
    Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 7,730 Mod ✭✭✭✭delly


    And you can make the DVD your image is on bootable, if you start ghost from a boot disk.

    Every PC my company puts out has a ghost image made with all the software loaded and configured, makes things a hell of a lot easier in the case of a hard disk failure.


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