I have a HP Pavilion ZD 8000 laptop and I would like to backup the intire hard drive in case it crashes and I have to replace it. I have a maxtor onetouch 4 mini external drive with 250 gig of storage space. I tried using its built in backup system but for some reason it didn't back up the whole drive. I clicked on the "C" drive for backup but it didn't get all of it. I also tried the win xp backup chose backup everything on this drive option but it always failed for some unknown reason. So is there a program that will allow me to backup the intire hardrive?
Need to backup intire hard drive
- Thread starter sinebar
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I need to restore the entire main hard drive from the external drive to a new main drive in case the old main drive fails which it will do eventually. Your suggestion doesn't get me there and I can't boot up from an external drive anyway.
(not vista....yet )
diduknowthat
formerly liuliuboy
Make an image of your hard drive using Norton Ghost or something.
danajanesis
New Member
yeah that one works for me.. a clone or a copy or a duplicate of your file using ghost..