Laptop back up

joho

Hi,

I need to make a back up of my laptop for restore purposes. I have a 2TB external hard drive that I bought for backing up all my photos, phone etc. but when I start the PC back up process it tells me I need a seperate device as it will overwrite everything on the drive. Is this correct or can I somehow partition things on the hard drive?

Thanks
Jo

DoaM

Erm ... you should be setting the target for the backup to the external drive? (Create a sub-folder on the external drive; e.g. .. BACKUP_20180706 ... and set that as the target for today's backup).

Or are you trying to clone your current disk? (i.e. full backup including OS and programmes etc.)

joho

Yes I'm trying to do a full back including OS and programmes, in case I need to restore the whole PC. I tried a USB and it said that there was something on there and if I carried on it would overwrite it.

So I thought maybe there wasn't enough space hence trying to save it to a 2TB external drive.

But obviously I don't want it going over what I have saved on there even though there is probably still 1.9999998TB of space left.

DoaM

You might be better using something like Macrium Reflect to make the backup.