[mallard32]

Heres the deal,

Im going to be sending in my ASUS laptop to the company for them to fix a screen issue. My question is since they are not liable for any information lost, how should i go about backing up my data. I currently have 640 Gb on two harddrives each partidioned once. Meaning i have C,D,E,F HDDS when i go to My Computer. This was by factory default.

My question is what software should i use to back them up to an external harddrive? And what External Hard Drive would somebody suggest? Money isnt an issue but i wouldnt need more than 640 gb of storage.

Be advised i only need this because I am shipping in my laptop for repair and will probably not use it so often after that.

Windows 7 64 bit

Thanks

 

[sloother]

I recently bought an internal Western Digital Caviar Green with 1.0 TB (which is plenty of space for me) and it runs at 7,200 rpm. It is very quiet but it has to be formatted which took me 12 hours to do. There is a deal at hhgregg where you can get a Toshiba external hardrive with 1.0TB for $80 and it already has backup software on it and I'm about to return my internal and get that hardrive. It's model number is PH3100U-1EXB

 

[mallard32]

So i am going to purchase (Cavalry Passio 1TB USB 2.0 / eSATA Black External Hard Drive CAXH3701T0 ) Has really good reviews and meets the criteria that i need.

Now for the software...

I am not sure which is better....to make an image? or to copy/clone?
Some software that i have found is acronis, xxclone, easeus disk copy, and driveimage XML back software.


Please provide feedback on the best software I should use to do this.


Laptop info:
ASUS Windows 7 64-bit....2 Internal Harddrives (320 gb each) Each HD is partitioned once. C:/ D:/ G:/ F:/

Hopefull this wont be an issue.

 

[jcgriff2]

Hi -

Backup your personal profile folder files - Music, Documents, Pics, etc... + the other partitions, assuming all files on them are yours (i. e., not a recovery drive). Should the company reinstall Vista, you will have to reinstall all apps; they can't be copied back in.

Regards. . .

jcgriff2


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[TheOutcaste]

If you image the partitions you can restore the system, applications and all, regardless of what they do. I use Acronis mostly, but Easeus Todo Backup works well also.

 

[mallard32]

Thanks for your fast feedback. I would like to image everything, therefore if anything happened to my laptop hd i could just boot the ext and have full capabilities and all
files.

Narrowed it down to these: Acronis Migrate Easy or DriveImage XML

Any feedback or additional information would be appreciated.