ADVICE / Help Please ?? - Making a 'back-up/clone of my laptop ?

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bilabonic

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Hi All

Just had a 'fright' when my OLD Acer Aspire 5920/ZD1 would NOT boot !!!

After playing for over an hour, removing GPU, Ram etc it some how went into system restore ?

It only has a 250Gb drive and i only use around 120Gb...

It has ALL my important info/programs etcso i was quite scared !!!

I have heard of programs where they can create a back/clone to an external HDD ?

I have a brand new portable 150Gb one here...

Anyone recommend a 'way' to make things safer ? How to back up ??

Eg if this Laptop dies i can just purchase another and use the external HDD back up to 'restore' my new one....

I want to upgrade in a next few weeks...

Thanks in advance.
 
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It allows you to recreate the system (or drive) exactly as it was at the moment you made the Image.

If your current drive dies.
If your current OS gets a major virus.
You accidentally delete something critical.
Right before you make some major hardware or software change.

A new system, desktop or laptop, would get its own fresh OS install.
But if you separate your data properly, a clean install only affect the drive or partition with the OS and application.
Your personal data is never affected.

For instance, in my system. 5 individual drives.
Drive 1 is the OS and applications.
All others contain all my personal data...
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It allows you to recreate the system (or drive) exactly as it was at the moment you made the Image.

If your current drive dies.
If your current OS gets a major virus.
You accidentally delete something critical.
Right before you make some major hardware or software change.

A new system, desktop or laptop, would get its own fresh OS install.
But if you separate your data properly, a clean install only affect the drive or partition with the OS and application.
Your personal data is never affected.

For instance, in my system. 5 individual drives.
Drive 1 is the OS and applications.
All others contain all my personal data. Various types on different drives.

If the OS needs a reinstall or recovery from a backup, the other data is not affected.

Or...if any individual drive dies, I can recover from last nights backup. Or from any day in the last 2 weeks.

Additionally, I have 2 baseline Images of the OS drive.
1 from Day 1, with just the OS
1 from Day 2, with the OS and my basic load of applications.
All easily recoverable to a new drive if needed.

And this backup is all automated. Once set up, I don't have to do anything.
Until there is some issue I need to recover from.

Read more here: http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/id-3383768/backup-situation-home.html
 
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