Backing Up

ScarletBea

Maybe a silly question, but...

If my computer has a C: and a drive, and the C: is where everything is, all the windows and booting progrmas, can I use the drive for back-ups and have them safe?
By having 2 different names, does it mean I physically have 2 hard-drives?
(never opened my computer)

Marty999

ScarletBea wrote: »

If my computer has a C: and a drive, and the C: is where everything is, all the windows and booting progrmas, can I use the drive for back-ups and have them safe?By having 2 different names, does it mean I physically have 2 hard-drives?(never opened my computer)

It is possible that you have two hard drives, but it is more likely that you have one hard drive with two partitions. I either event, I would recommend backing up to an external USB hard drive as you can then store that in a safe location away from your computer.

Marty999

joolsbfd wrote: »

can anyone recommend an external drive that backs up automatically?

Hi Jools, did you find an answer to your question? If not, this may be helpful to you. It's a piece of software that automatically backs up your files. You still need an external hard drive or similar, but I thought you may find it useful?

andy2004

Great new freeware application to create a backup image of your harddrive/partition called TODO backup by EASEUS

http://www.todo-backup.com/ completely freeware. looks and feels like acronis trueimage to use. You can mount the backups too.

busenbust

Even Windows Back Up does a decent enough job; don't over-look it :cool:

Saving_spree

May be you should upgarde the memory or empty your pc memory...........

superscaper

Saving_spree wrote: »

May be you should upgarde the memory or empty your pc memory...........

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busenbust

Saving_spree wrote: »

May be you should upgarde the memory or empty your pc memory...........

^^^^^^^^^^^^ :huh:

ih8stress

Having got a Seagate expansion external drive (usb 500gb) for xmas, my son wants to back-up 'everything on his laptop'.

Having flicked through this 'sticky' I believe that he needs some sort of imaging software (FREE) to be able to 'clone' his c;drive. There are one or two suggestions but I am not sure which ones are relevant/up to date for his needs?

His laptop has Vista Premium installed and is 32-bit.

Any suggestions please?

Also, would this be better as a new thread in the techie section as I may have further questions on it as I progress. Thanks

busenbust

ih8stress wrote: »

Having got a Seagate expansion external drive (usb 500gb) for xmas, my son wants to back-up 'everything on his laptop'.

Having flicked through this 'sticky' I believe that he needs some sort of imaging software (FREE) to be able to 'clone' his c;drive. There are one or two suggestions but I am not sure which ones are relevant/up to date for his needs?

His laptop has Vista Premium installed and is 32-bit.

Any suggestions please?

Also, would this be better as a new thread in the techie section as I may have further questions on it as I progress. Thanks

True Image often gets decent reviews

Norton Ghost is another (but I have not used this for ages).

Ignore, as I just noticed you require freeware