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Author: luke9511, Location: Nashville Tn PostPosted: Mon May 12, 2008 12:46 am    Post subject: file backup
can someone tell me the best, easiest, most reliable way to back up my files other than using cds/dvds
Author: pwillener, Location: Japan PostPosted: Mon May 12, 2008 1:59 am    Post subject:
That depends on each user's situation. I personally use Acronis True Image to make an image copy of all my partitions to a second HD.
Author: luke9511, Location: Nashville Tn PostPosted: Mon May 12, 2008 2:03 am    Post subject:
pwillener wrote:
That depends on each user's situation. I personally use Acronis True Image to make an image copy of all my partitions to a second HD.
only problem is i dont have a hard drive big enough for that
Author: Arenlor, Location: USA PostPosted: Mon May 12, 2008 2:36 am    Post subject:
Depends on the files you need backed up. My mom has a 4G flash thumb drive that I use to back up all her files.
Author: luke9511, Location: Nashville Tn PostPosted: Mon May 12, 2008 4:40 am    Post subject:
Arenlor wrote:
Depends on the files you need backed up. My mom has a 4G flash thumb drive that I use to back up all her files.
more space than that lol
Author: johnlgalt,  PostPosted: Mon May 12, 2008 5:32 am    Post subject:
How large is your HD, and how much space do you have available on it? It sounds like you're pushing for an external HD in the near future if you're that low on space....
Author: luke9511, Location: Nashville Tn PostPosted: Mon May 12, 2008 6:50 am    Post subject:
johnlgalt wrote:
How large is your HD, and how much space do you have available on it? It sounds like you're pushing for an external HD in the near future if you're that low on space....
250 gig and im just backing up my files to do a clean wipe of the whole system so i can install vista
Author: dragon1988, Location: Singapore PostPosted: Mon May 12, 2008 5:29 pm    Post subject:
If you have another computer, you can start sending the files to the other one. When done with the installing, just transfer back.
Author: luke9511, Location: Nashville Tn PostPosted: Mon May 12, 2008 8:12 pm    Post subject:
dragon1988 wrote:
If you have another computer, you can start sending the files to the other one. When done with the installing, just transfer back.
i do but they all have small hard drives and are not currently hooked up
Author: johnlgalt,  PostPosted: Mon May 12, 2008 9:17 pm    Post subject:
If those hard drives are not mission critical (IOW, if you don't mindformatting them) install them in your current computer, format them, then make your backup to them....since you ahve access to the drives, that would be the cheapest solution by far....
Author: luke9511, Location: Nashville Tn PostPosted: Thu May 15, 2008 2:06 am    Post subject:
johnlgalt wrote:
If those hard drives are not mission critical (IOW, if you don't mindformatting them) install them in your current computer, format them, then make your backup to them....since you ahve access to the drives, that would be the cheapest solution by far....
i think thats what im going to do but first i gotta fix my current problem, which is i figured i would do something i did a while ago which was create a 2nd partition to put the files on to back them up, how ever i used partition magic which hasn't given me alot of problems before, but now when it went to make the 2nd partition it came up with an error and tried to restart it gets to the windows xp loading screen and just restarts after that and thats all it does, not even safe mode works, so any help on this would be great
Author: johnlgalt,  PostPosted: Thu May 15, 2008 4:10 am    Post subject:
Are you currently running Vista? f So, partition Magic is not going to play nicely.

However, Vista *by it self* can shrink existing partitions and make new ones....
Author: luke9511, Location: Nashville Tn PostPosted: Thu May 15, 2008 4:22 am    Post subject:
johnlgalt wrote:
Are you currently running Vista? f So, partition Magic is not going to play nicely.

However, Vista *by it self* can shrink existing partitions and make new ones....
no xp is still installed, i installed partition magic on xp to backup my files before i install vista
Author: johnlgalt,  PostPosted: Thu May 15, 2008 4:24 am    Post subject:
With you having a 250 GB HD you should have no issues at all with XP (emphasis on should). If it is giving you a fit, I'd recommend going with the plan as described above
Author: luke9511, Location: Nashville Tn PostPosted: Thu May 15, 2008 5:13 am    Post subject:
johnlgalt wrote:
With you having a 250 GB HD you should have no issues at all with XP (emphasis on should). If it is giving you a fit, I'd recommend going with the plan as described above
well right now i cant do anything cause i cant boot into windows cause of the 2nd problem i posted about
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