Need help with formatting the Hard Drive

[Ragdoll47]

Control panel > System and Security > Back up and Restore > Create a System Image > "Where do you want to save the back up?"

[ x ] On hard drive: None

[ ] On one or more DVDs : DVD RW Drive

I want to have it backed up on the Hard Drive but how do I get it to work? When I click on "computer" from the start menu it says Hard Disk Drive (1) - Local Disk (C: )

Please help.

 

[Pyree]

You cannot backup the image of the drive you want to backup on that same drive. That defeats the purpose of backup . You need another hard drive or at least another partition on the same hard drive, but then the backup on a separate partition will not protect data loss from HDD failure so I encourage you to backup on another HDD.

 

[Ragdoll47]

Okay then, I'll skip back up for now.

How do I know that my HD is recognized and is usable in my system? I've already downloaded drivers for the MB and GPU, so maybe I'm just overreacting.

 

[Pyree]

Huh? If you already have window installed on you c:, of course your HDD is recognised and working. Or do you have another HDD attached but not showing up?

 

[Pyree]

Or do you want to back up the image of your old computer and restore it on the new one?