C Drive Question

Hi,

I recently had a drive go bad. Good thing all the data is backed up
and I just bought another TB drive.....it was only data.

It made me think about what if/when the C: drive goes bad.......what
can be done to recover this? Is it feasible to image the C: drive?
Can you just backup all the files and if the drive goes bad just copy
files back to the new HD? What about having only 1 boot drive in the
system.........

Looking for suggestions.....

Thanks!

Is it feasible to image the C: drive?

Done all the time.

Can you just backup all the files and if the drive goes bad just copy
> files back to the new HD?

You need the MBR and Boot Records which are difficult to copy unless you
have specialised programs

You can only use one boot drive at a time and most only have one. Many who
dual boot on separate drives do it so they can select the drive to boot from
at boot time for added safety. They can then establish dual booting from a
common drive.

<> wrote in message
news:78d6b2e9-b336-4eb6-955e-...
> Hi,
>
> I recently had a drive go bad. Good thing all the data is backed up
> and I just bought another TB drive.....it was only data.
>
> It made me think about what if/when the C: drive goes bad.......what
> can be done to recover this? Is it feasible to image the C: drive?
> Can you just backup all the files and if the drive goes bad just copy
> files back to the new HD? What about having only 1 boot drive in the
> system.........
>
> Looking for suggestions.....
>
> Thanks!

You want Acronis. I keep images of all 10 of my systems just in cas
that does happen

Or a free alternative is here 'The Official ImgBurn Website
(http://www.imgburn.com/)

--
joel406

Google external hard drive or external hard drive enclosure. It is indeed
feasible to image your entire C drive to a partition on an external drive,
and make incremental backups to another one. Then at the most you stand to
lose only a couple hours' work when, not if, your drive crashes next time.

--
Earle Horton --

<> wrote in message
news:78d6b2e9-b336-4eb6-955e-...
> Hi,
>
> I recently had a drive go bad. Good thing all the data is backed up
> and I just bought another TB drive.....it was only data.
>
> It made me think about what if/when the C: drive goes bad.......what
> can be done to recover this? Is it feasible to image the C: drive?
> Can you just backup all the files and if the drive goes bad just copy
> files back to the new HD? What about having only 1 boot drive in the
> system.........
>
> Looking for suggestions.....
>
> Thanks!

"Earle Horton" <> wrote:

>Google external hard drive or external hard drive enclosure. It is indeed
>feasible to image your entire C drive to a partition on an external drive,
>and make incremental backups to another one.

In my experience - Norton Ghost (long time ago) and Acronis True Image
- incremental backups have to be on the same drive as the original
backup.

Richie Hardwick

"Richie Hardwick" <> wrote in message
news...
> "Earle Horton" <> wrote:
>
>>Google external hard drive or external hard drive enclosure. It is indeed
>>feasible to image your entire C drive to a partition on an external drive,
>>and make incremental backups to another one.
>
> In my experience - Norton Ghost (long time ago) and Acronis True Image
> - incremental backups have to be on the same drive as the original
> backup.
>

Use Ghost or something like it to back up your entire partition. Then use a
file backup program to back up user files. There are a million ways to
handle the details.

--
Earle Horton --

"Earle Horton" <> wrote:

>"Richie Hardwick" <> wrote in message
>news.. .
>> "Earle Horton" <> wrote:
>>
>>>Google external hard drive or external hard drive enclosure. It is indeed
>>>feasible to image your entire C drive to a partition on an external drive,
>>>and make incremental backups to another one.
>>
>> In my experience - Norton Ghost (long time ago) and Acronis True Image
>> - incremental backups have to be on the same drive as the original
>> backup.
>>
>
>Use Ghost or something like it to back up your entire partition. Then use a
>file backup program to back up user files. There are a million ways to
>handle the details.

Don't use the term "incremental backups" when you are talking about
something else.

An "incremental backup" is an addition to an existing backup image
that is made by the same software that made the existing image.

Richie Hardwick

"Richie Hardwick" <> wrote in message
news:...
> "Earle Horton" <> wrote:
>
>>"Richie Hardwick" <> wrote in message
>>news. ..
>>> "Earle Horton" <> wrote:
>>>
>>>>Google external hard drive or external hard drive enclosure. It is
>>>>indeed
>>>>feasible to image your entire C drive to a partition on an external
>>>>drive,
>>>>and make incremental backups to another one.
>>>
>>> In my experience - Norton Ghost (long time ago) and Acronis True Image
>>> - incremental backups have to be on the same drive as the original
>>> backup.
>>>
>>
>>Use Ghost or something like it to back up your entire partition. Then use
>>a
>>file backup program to back up user files. There are a million ways to
>>handle the details.
>
> Don't use the term "incremental backups" when you are talking about
> something else.
>
> An "incremental backup" is an addition to an existing backup image
> that is made by the same software that made the existing image.
>
> Richie Hardwick

I was talking about incremental backups of user data, independent of the
hard drive image backup. The copy of Ghost that I have doesn't appear to do
incremental backups.

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Earle Horton --

Norton(symantec) products are the last thing anybody should have on
their system.
Their products are so far below the rest it's amazing their still
alive.

Accronis pretty much does it all. The 2009 version cloned a 160gb to a
250gb HD in 40 seconds!! And to my surprise...it worked.

So remember Norton= Bad!

Acronis(IMO)= Good!!


--
joel406

I have Norton Ghost 2003. I believe that this is the last version that
works in DOS mode. I have found it to be extremely useful for a variety of
disk cloning tasks. I have heard good things about Acronis but as long as
Ghost keeps working for me...

--
Earle Horton --

"joel406" <> wrote in message
news:...
>
> Norton(symantec) products are the last thing anybody should have on
> their system.
> Their products are so far below the rest it's amazing their still
> alive.
>
> Accronis pretty much does it all. The 2009 version cloned a 160gb to a
> 250gb HD in 40 seconds!! And to my surprise...it worked.
>
> So remember Norton= Bad!
>
> Acronis(IMO)= Good!!
>
>
> --
> joel406