Topic: Full hard drive backup program? (Read 719 times)

Dust

#1 August 31, 2008, 04:13:57 am
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What I want to do is be able to take the state of my C:\ drive (all of the settings, programs, dictionaries, etc) and put it onto another hard drive. I basically want to clone my PC. I want all of my programs to behave the same way as the do now, like I want to be able to go to Start > Program Files and have everything the way it is now. I want startup to be the same etc.
Is it possible to do this?

I ask because I want to install a bigger hard drive (100 gb), partition that into 40 gb partitions and then restore the backup file onto one of those partitions.

I really hope this is possible because I have my computer running exactly how I want it right now.
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Bobberticus

#2 August 31, 2008, 04:19:02 am
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norton ghost i think
fuck it all, dd is dead
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ATARI

#3 August 31, 2008, 03:34:32 pm
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yeah hook your second hard drive up, run norton ghost from boot up and it'll let you clone from your first hard drive to your destination drive (second hard drive)
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#4 August 31, 2008, 09:41:29 pm
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If you didn't want to have to deal with another hard drive for some reason, you could always backup your hard drive online at some place like carbonite.com. Of course I wouldn't trust backing my stuff up online, chance they could look at personal files and crap like that.
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#5 August 31, 2008, 10:04:24 pm
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Quote from: Aztec on August 31, 2008, 09:41:29 pm
If you didn't want to have to deal with another hard drive for some reason, you could always backup your hard drive online at some place like carbonite.com. Of course I wouldn't trust backing my stuff up online, chance they could look at personal files and crap like that.
not to mention internet is slow
fuck it all, dd is dead
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goat

#6 August 31, 2008, 11:13:16 pm
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Quote from: Aztec on August 31, 2008, 09:41:29 pm
Of course I wouldn't trust backing my stuff up online, chance they could look at personal files and crap like that.

I hope you're just being silly, because businesses cannot look at customers personal data, or you could sue them for more money than you need to retire.
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Dust

#7 September 01, 2008, 11:49:34 pm
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Alight, I'll give Norton Ghost a shot; it's kinda expensive, but whatever.

Thanks guys :)​.
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