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willystyle
06-28-2012, 05:30 PM
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:
Macrium Reflect FREE Edition - Information and download (http://www.macrium.com/reflectfree.aspx)
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
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
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
^ 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.