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What do i use to back up my 'C' drive?
Briana Dawson
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05-21-2009 06:58
I would like to get a back up program that lets me back up my Windows "C" drive with all the programs and OS, onto a separate partition on a scheduled basis.

Is that a good thing to do? Can it be restored to make my PC work again if something happened?

I download Paragon back up, but it keeps creating a new archive every back up session and not re-rewriting over the old on.

Any ideas? Is this even worth it? Can a windows 'C' drive be restored from a back up and then boot by itself afterward?

The Paragon program is maybe $39 so not expensive to buy - but i need something that works if i want i want to do is possible.

Thanks!
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Brenda Connolly
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05-21-2009 07:15
Have you looked at Norton Ghost?
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Govindira Galatea
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05-21-2009 08:00
Hi Briana,

I use Casper XP. It copies my entire C: drive to a different partition. It is a bootable partition that results from the copy. Very easy to use and very reliable. It's not free, but it's very good.

http://www.fssdev.com/

is Casper's site.
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05-21-2009 08:36
Ghost is the canonical tool for this.

I made a PicoBSD boot floppy that let me dd my boot drive to a file on a network share and restore it... if you do this you sometimes need to do some post-restore patching to make it properly bootable ... Ghost takes care of that.

There is an open-source Ghost alternative: http://sourceforge.net/projects/freeghost/#

There's a free-for-personal-use tool that stores images in XML files (!) http://www.runtime.org/driveimage-xml.htm#
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