Hi. I've been wondering is there a way to make a complete backup of my computer with a program? I have an SSD with the OS, and a HDD for storage. Also that could potentially be a problem, because one of the drives may use some files from the other drive, so I dont know how well that backup might work, when I were to restore it again?
Complete backup of computer?
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lfkfkfkffs
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Some imaging programs will give you the option to either 1. make a complete image of the system or 2. only retrieve any files that it can find, in your case it would be from the hard drive. So you could use something like acronis to first create a system image of only the ssd, and then you could use the other feature later after you get the os image, and then have it grab all of your personal files off of your hard drive. I used to use it for backups all of the time and to retrieve customer files, but now I normally skip that part unless there is a reason for me doing it.
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If you want something that is free I sometimes use AOMEI Backupper, what you can do is make a system backup, and then select disk or partition backup for your hard drive.
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I haven't used that in a while, but you could do that and then just use the disk backup feature of the program that I listed to finish up your backup of your hard drive.
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CloneZilla or DriveimageXML. These will take an image of the whole drive, Save that elsewhere.
Windows backup requires a running Windows install to restore. The others only need the source files and target drives. You can boot directly from the CloneZilla DVD.
Litterally just what I needed. Because my next question would be, how I would restore a windows backup, like do I have to install windows before being able to restore it? Yeah thats kinda dumb, I would much more prefer having a DVD.
Also would there be any problems in having multiple drives on the computer when I would restore again?
Also would there be any problems in having multiple drives on the computer when I would restore again?
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If you did a backup though the Windows utility, depending on what type of backup, you will need Windows installed to restore the files. If you used Windows to make an image of your drive you will just need the image file and a rescue boot disk you can create from Windows.
Or use a 3rd party cloning program as suggested on other posts.
I suggest only having the single drive hooked up while you run a restore, that will prevent you from accidentally dumping the image on the wrong drive. Having many drives hooked up won't cause issues on it's own, but I have seen people use the wrong drive for the image and destroy data they needed.
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