hey just brought an external 60 gig harddrive which back up or mirror can i use to reiniciate if hard dies?
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If I understand you correctly, you would have to put an operating system on your external hard drive to get it to work with a computer if your main hard drive stopped working. Not 100% if it would work right, but it makes sense.
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Why not just go to a Electronics Store and just buy a new hard drive. It doesnt matter if its new or old, the wire that connects them does.
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go to start, accessories, system tools, disk cleanup.\n\nI also like the program crap cleaner to clean the harddrive. you can find it at filehippo.com. \nAlso to backup your harddrive, you need a dvdrw drive or an external hard drive or cdrw drive to copy your files to another storage space. i recommend the dvds or another hard drive because you'll need a lot of cds! then just burn your files like you would a music cd/dvd.
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Backup? You mean backing up files on the laptop? I'm confused.
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Easy recovery professional and other data recovery software can recover data from hard drive.\n\nbut for that hard drive should be in detectable condition and media of disk should be readable for having a little damage drive in working condition try putting it in freezer for 1 or 2.
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a 250 gb external hard drive usb 2.0 / firewire should be cheapest solution starting $ 80\n\nhttp://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/category/category_slc.asp?CatId=136&\n\neasiest & fastest option too
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see, formattting an internal harddisk and external one is the same thing, just make the external one as the master, by some jumpher settings,
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will it boot into safemode (f8 on boot)? if so do a system restore ... if not ur sol i think ...there wont be any other backup unless you made one ... if you know what files then pull ur drive and stick it in the machine ur using now and copy the files you need to the system folders ...
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For backup (one touch) i would go with Seagate, but for a portable hard drive i would use WD (western digital)\n\nBoth are excellent companies, and i haven't had a faulty product from them yet.
864696
Yes, this is very easy. Get your external HD kit and it should have instructions for you. It will guide you through he process.
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I'm currently using SyncBackup to back up my files into my 250GB external hard drive. You can also schedule the backup. And you can also choose different type of backup, e.g. backup files that have been modified since the last backup. Hope it helps.
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The best way is using Ghost.  Just run a ghost image of your pc and put in on a USB hard drive or any other media you please (of course needs to fit)   That is hands down the best way to do a Bare Metal Restore.  You could also mirror your drive using a Raid controler etc. and keep that drive else where as a back up copy...
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What I would do is re-install Windows and all your software on the new HD and slave your current crashed HD without formatting see if you can recover any data from it.  Here are instructions on HD installation. http://www.basichardware.com/HowTo_Install_Hard_Drive.html
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I don't know how big your HD is, but this is how I do it.\n\nFirst... I save everything I want to keep EXTERNALLY.\n\nThen I re-partition the hard drive, using one partition for the OS (C:), one partition for the Applications, one partition for Data. (NOTE: Use "save as" rather than "save" to put data in folders on data partition.)\n\nThen I reload the OS and everything else I need, in the appropriate partitions. (Use "custom" load to change the prtition where you load Appplications)\n\nThen I make "backups" regularly, stored EXTERNALLY.  That way I can simply reload the OS when needed, and then use the "backup" program to "restore from backup", overwriting the OS or other applications and/or files as needed, (like after a crash!!)\n\nOn systems that permit it, a "Recovery" or "Restore" disc set, or restore point, should be made IMMEDIATELY after loading is complete, so you can have a "base" point to start from.  \nI also make a "manual" restore point before loading any new application or making any critical system changes, just in case of problems.
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get this http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=1733195&CatId=2213\nstick your hard drive in it and plug it in the usb port and you can get all of the info from your old drive and now you have a handy, portable hard drive!
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Sure. Software like OnTrack can replace your data in a heartbeat. It can recover data even if the drive has been formatted many times. If you don't want to buy OnTrack, find a local computer shop. Most good ones have it.
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The answer on your question depends on the size of the files to be backed up, however I recommend you to use the external hard drive. I think that is the best place for backup storage because it is bigger than CDs/DVDs and it is not such corruptible.