I'd like to back up a couple machines with full drive copies for use in case of a drive crash & replacement. I need a program to do the backup and that will allow me to do the restore without building a new system first (i.e. boot from a CD and restore to a bare drive).
View 4 RepliesI have an HP laptop that came with Vista Home Premium installed.
Two drivers, the C: driver as usual and a 'D:' driver also known as "HP_RECOVERY".
Now my question is very simple and basic yet I'm baffled not figuring out a way to do it.
Is it possible to clone the image of the OS I'm running currently to that D: drive? What software do I use to do that?
I will also need to mention that the drive size is ~8GB so it's very small. If there is a way to clone the current image to that drive, i will have to extend it and make it bigger, how would you do that also
I have a dual boot system: XP PRO on drive C and Vista Home Premium on drive B. I want to replace my hardrive, and move (or clone) Vista to new drive and be it C drive. Vista is still virgin and not other programs are installed, so changing it location from D to C drive will not influance any applications. I know how to create hard drive image. My question is how to make that new c drive with Vista on it bootable again. Is there any utility I can use?
View 4 Replies View RelatedI want to clone a laptop drive that's larger in capacity than the one in my laptop. The original has two logical partitions. I have Acronis True Image 11. Reason: If my laptop drive ever goes south, I should just be able to pop the cloned drive in and off we go. I need some detailed guidance on how to do this.
View 7 Replies View RelatedI have a 720GB internal drive that I've maxed out with automated weekly backups. I have another drive with a lot of space, and my question is, can Vista backup be set to continue the existing backup onto an additional drive. In other words, the backup files would be spread over two drives?
View 5 Replies View RelatedI fitted a NAS Drive to a customers Network: BT HomeHub, Dell PC running Vista connected wirelessly and 2 Dell Laptops also wireless the NAS is plugged into BT HomeHub. The customer had previously used an external USB drive connected to the Dell PC to backup to, I tried to change the Backup to the NAS drive, when I try to change the Backup schedule Vista keeps asking me for passwords to connect to the NAS, I have tried using the passwords on the NAS but then it gives a RPC error with varying code numbers then goes onto say drive J: not found. I have tried setting NAS to J: with no joy, the big kick in the pants is the NAS is seen and able to access in "My Computer" Can I delete the Backup schedule if so how do you do it?
View 4 Replies View RelatedI want to backup my entire C drive, OS and ALL the files on that drive. I don't believe that the backup utility in Vista backs up the operating system and ALL files. c Can someone point me in the right direction to accomplish this.
View 8 Replies View RelatedI'm operating Vista Ultimate x64 on an HP Tx2 Touchsmart. (The 3rd one.)I've had the Touchsmart for a month and the case broke - so before I swapped it out at Best Buy I went over to the Backup and Recovery area of Vista and made a full restore on to an external hard drive. The folder "WindowsImageBackup" now exists on my G: external drive. I go swap out the two machines, come home and try and get Backup Status and Configuration to recognize the G: drive backup - it finds the drive, not the backup. I get to the point where it searches for a backup to restore - but it won't see anything there. I can see it, but apparently Windows can't. Besides cuss at HP for making a machine I had to return twice because of hardware issues. It's a sweet little tablet (multi-touch) but I've got some lemons right off the rack. Don't let me down Vista community!
View 4 Replies View RelatedHad a computer running XP with a Nvida GeForce4 MX 440 video card installed. I could clone the desktop to our big screen TV. Worked great. I now have a new computer running Vista home. I installed the same card in the new computer. I click on the desktop, click on personalize, then display. The only option I now have is to extend the desktop to the TV. What do I need to do in order to clone the desktop? Is it possible with Vista and this card??
View 5 Replies View RelatedI'm a cs developer who needs to back up my system for instant recovery. I have two identical HD for my note book. HD2 is in a USB enclosure. I need to do a full clone to this drive each week so as not to loose productivity. When the HD1 goes and has twice so far, i want to plugin HD2 and pick up from it's last clone point (yes data is on alt backups)
View 7 Replies View RelatedI've been trying to back up my laptop since I bought it last year, but the
first time I did it, it said "backup failed" (I didn't look at why, just gave
up) and since then, every week when it does its sad little attempt to back
up, it says "last backup failed".
I finally decided to give it another crack tonight, but when I looked at the
D drive, it said that I only had 1.28GB free of just over 5GB. I looked in
the file to see if there was anything I could get rid of so I could start
from scratch, but apparently there's nothing in there apart from the little
RECOVERY file (87kb) which it says I shouldn't touch, so I'm not going to!
I am completely computer deficient and I have no idea about anything! I'd
be really grateful if someone could give me a clue (in Vista Backup for
Dummies terms) as to what's happening here and how I can FINALLY back up my
laptop, and maybe even begin to love it like I should!!
I have vista home premium and a new Laptop. I need to make System Backups (complete drive c I realize that Toshiba put so much junk software on my new laptop but could not see it's way to include a System Backup.
View 5 Replies View RelatedI've been using an external USB hard drive to back up my HP laptop system - backing up EVERYTHING incrementally on the drive (including the OS). If I ever had a serious problem, I could rebuild my system without having to reinstall all my software. Recently, my backup hard drive crashed - DEAD!! Before I buy another external hard drive, I would like to get some opinions on other backup strategies. I used to clone my "C" drive (about once a week) in addition to the external hard drive.
But I no longer have an extra 2 1/2" drive large enough to back up to. The cost of additional drives for backup is not an issue. I would just like to get other opinions so I can choose one that works for me. Suggestions for drive models and types are also welcome as well as software. Currently, I use software from Aquarius I.S. Consultancy for sequential backup and I cloned my "C" drive with Acronis True Image.
My backup drive D in Windows Vista is full up and I can't seem to be able to empty it or allocate more space to it. It only has 9.99GB of space allocated to it and my computer is now complaining that it can't backup. Does anyone know how to allocate more space to it, or should I just delete everything on it?
View 5 Replies View RelatedI have a 250 gig backup drive which is now full and my weekly backup is failing. the drive I am backing up shows only 133 gig used in properties why has the back up exceeded the total disk usage i am backing up. The file structure on backupo drive shows only one backup set dated 2007-08-04 within which are the weekly folders for my backups each of which contains a varying number of zip files. I am reluctant to just delete and start over but cannot see a way of managing backed up data.
View 8 Replies View RelatedI have an Acer notebook with Vista SP2 oem . I intend to upgrade the internal drive from 80 to 500 GB but as the machine came with an early version of Vista home premium pre-installed I do not have a Vista cd to reinstall the os only a recovery dvd. I have a free version of Macrium reflect that I use to make an image of the comlete C: drive. Is it possible to swap hard drives and copy this image to the new hard drive without any prior formatting or os loaded on it.
View 6 Replies View RelatedI have just repartioned an old ide hard drive which has a very small partition with XP on and i now have a large partition on the drive that i want to use as a back up drive. What format is the best for backup? I have heard that FAT32 is good and it also means it can be read by OSX if the need ever arose (could be useful because my flat mate is a mac user).
View 4 Replies View RelatedI installed Vista Ultimate about a year ago, and a few months later also installed Suse 10.2 and I know dual boot, GRUB handling the boot. I have no problems whatsoever running either OS, and they are both installed on the same physical disk, just different partitions. Now, here's the strange thing: If I open disk management, the C-drive is visible and listed as healthy. If I run the Vista backup app, it can't even see the hard drive it itself is Installed on! A while back I had problems installing a patch, and through Googling it started having suspicions that the patch problem could have to do with my dual boot setup (the patch had to do with the disc encryption thing), so I thought I'd restore Vista's boot record and delete the Suse partitions, but when I start from the DVD and select repair, it can't see the OS.
View 4 Replies View Relatedis there any way i can automatically backup a folder or syncronize a folder as soon as i insert my new 64GB flash drive...
View 4 Replies View RelatedI do weekly full backups to an 300 GB external USB hard drive with the built-in Windows Vista backup program. On my entre C: drive I've only used about 100 GB, and this of course includes both the OS, apps, and user data files. I just looked at the J: backup drive in Windows Explorer and the pie chart of Properties is showing the Used Space as 200 GB which really surprises me. I don't get this. On this backup drive there's only a single parent folder called RICK. The Properties of this folder shows only 21 GB of files. Yet Properties of the drive itself shows a pie chart of 200 GB Used Space.
Something is taking up a lot of extra space on the backup drive and I'm not sure what it is. I did a Disk Cleanup which found a Recycle Bin that hadn't been emptied out, but that only released about 15 GB. If this is any clue: before doing each full backup I manually delete the previous week's backup from the hard drive.
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I am trying to run Easy DVD Clone on a vista computer. The decryption happens through a DVD Fab software which transfers the video ts folders to a location that Easy DVD Clone can then read from. The initial process works fine and it transfers the files to a temp location but then when it tries to burn it to a DVD, the process stalls at 99% and right after I get the pop-up window stating "Easy DVD Clone has stopped working". This happens with all DVD's. Do you know why this maybe the case and if this a vista related issue? I have already disabled my virus protection software as someone has suggested somewhere that it may cause a problem and I also deleted some other dvd burning softwares that I had on there but the result is much the same.
View 7 Replies View Relatedmy c drive it says i have 1% left ! i have used disk cleanup and defag but it didn't help ,plus i remove programe ,cookies and temp internet, can i do a recovery using my backup files? i only had this computer for one year
View 5 Replies View RelatedI have a Vista Home Premium system that will not start. It gets as far as the system bootup progress bar, tries to start then suddenly the system shuts down. I have tried every possible recovery/repair technique I could find and still no luck. The system is using a Intel motherboard with Matrix Storage RAID which I have configured as RAID 1. In the repair console (from Vista DVD) I can read the drive from a prompt window so I assume the data is safe. I would like to back up the user data (photos, docs, email) and do a reinstall without the RAID 1 configuration. I have heard there are problems with Vista and the Matrix Storage controller.
Question is: How would I go about backing up a non-bootable Vista drive? I have another system running XP pro that I could mount the Vista drive to and copy the data to a portable USB drive. Is this a possibility? Will I run into any "access denied" issues when saving the data off to a backup drive? Also, the system was using Outlook 03 for email. What is the best way to recover the Outlook email data (messages, addresses, etc.) from a non-bootable disk? Is this email data in the same location as it is with XP?
If I do a complete backup on my Vista Ultimate laptop and do the restore to a larger hard disk, will it work? I have read differing reports of whether it will or not.
View 6 Replies View RelatedI am looking for a 1 to 1.5TB external hard drive to backup my system on. I do not want it to run backups automatically. What is a good one?
View 5 Replies View RelatedThe C drive is the drive that hold all my programs, the D drive is for extra backup. Yesterday my laptop was showing me an error saying I'm low on memory. I thought that to be odd as I haven't really installed anything. So I uninstalled programs or software that I didn't need or used. Today no matter what I uninstall, and that has been quite a bit, the error keeps popping up saying that I have no memory left. Then it showed me I had 18 MB left and I went back to work. Within a short period of time, I suddenly had no memory left.
View 4 Replies View RelatedI currently do a complete PC backup with Vista Ultimate 32 bit to an external hard drive. I am buying a new computer with an Intel® Core™ i7-920 Processor and Intel® DX58 Chipset. I believe this is a 64 bit system. Two questions... First of all, can I restore my 32 bit files to it? and secondly, my new computer has a larger hard drive. Is the larger hard drive a problem when restoring?
View 4 Replies View RelatedI cloned my vista hdd today as I bought a larger drive. However when I boot up I get a can't find winloader.exe error. I dont have the Vista CD so cant repair it.
View 4 Replies View RelatedParagon Drive Backup 8.51 Personal Edition. I have a old backup made in XP on a stationary computer. Now im restoring it on my laptop with Vista on the D: drive. It started after the reeboot and have now been running for more than 20 hours - and still running. The backupfile was about 50GB. How long time will it take to restore? I have seen severel pictures, movies, documents and temp. internetfiles running, but that was hours ago. My labtop have 3GB RAM, 2,000 HZ and there was about 73GB avalible on the D: drive.
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