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willystyle 06-28-2012 05:30 PM
Drive Backup Solution
 
What's the easiest and most effective way to backup a system partition and restore it to another hard drive while operating under the same PC?

I suspect that my primary hard drive is failing, so I will need to RMA it.

TIA!

!MiKrofT 06-28-2012 05:54 PM
Use this:
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willystyle 06-28-2012 05:55 PM
Thanks!

How do I restore the image onto a new HD?

Soundy 06-28-2012 05:58 PM
Windows 7 has a built-in backup utility that will do all this.

willystyle 06-28-2012 06:24 PM
^ Yeah, I almost forgot that.

Can I use the Windows 7 backup and restore utility to backup to a drive which I will be restoring Windows on?

Psykopathik 06-29-2012 07:12 AM
Quote:
Originally Posted by Soundy (Post 7961779)
Windows 7 has a built-in backup utility that will do all this.
shit I never knew this??!!!

unit 06-29-2012 07:51 AM
Quote:
Originally Posted by willystyle (Post 7961773)
Thanks!

How do I restore the image onto a new HD?
make the boot disc, and boot off it when you're ready to restore.
it'll ask you for the destination of the image, and just point to it.

Soundy 07-01-2012 10:55 AM
Quote:
Originally Posted by willystyle (Post 7961809)
^ Yeah, I almost forgot that.

Can I use the Windows 7 backup and restore utility to backup to a drive which I will be restoring Windows on?
Absolutely. It can backup the system drive, the Reserved System space, and any other partitions you have. It will create a bootable CD/DVD; you just boot off that and restore from the backup.


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