Backing up a HDD

ghost

ghost

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Hello all, I have a PC at work thats quite unique and is running some software that operates a dyno (rolling road). I really need to back up whats on there and have not got around it. So I though the best way is to plug in a IDE HDD and do a copy of the whole HDD (ghost type thing). What do you guys/gals reckon?

There any good softwares that can do such a thing? Or is there a better way to do it?


Cheers in advance.
 
daisymtc said:
Raid 1
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RAID 1 is only useful if one of the drives crashes. If theres a virus on the system, or if a user deletes a file, everything is gone anyways.

You can use a program such as Norton Ghost to create an image of the drive. Or if it's just data you want you can just copy the files over.
 
Thanks omega, I want to have summin like a image of the drive to put on another HDD and keep it somewhere safe...

Basically if the HDD dies on the machine I want to be able to take it out and plug a new one in... Job done and it works..

The reason for this is the computer is out in the workshop, its on all the time and it gets cold out there. Then I found this morning it was struggling to boot from the HDD but after leaving it on for a while it was working fine.

Problem is if the HDD dies I cant use the PC... that means I cant control the rolling road... all goes down hill.
 
ghost said:
Thanks omega, I want to have summin like a image of the drive to put on another HDD and keep it somewhere safe...

Basically if the HDD dies on the machine I want to be able to take it out and plug a new one in... Job done and it works..

The reason for this is the computer is out in the workshop, its on all the time and it gets cold out there. Then I found this morning it was struggling to boot from the HDD but after leaving it on for a while it was working fine.

Problem is if the HDD dies I cant use the PC... that means I cant control the rolling road... all goes down hill.
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I think I know what you mean. I dont know how much space your data is taking up, but what you can do is burn the image to a DVD or DVD DL. If it's too large, then I would buy an identical drive to copy the contents of the current drive to an identical drive. That way if the primary drive goes down, you can pop in the new drive and it will work fine.
 
Sweet, got about 7gb used on it and its a 40gb HDD... So ya reckon norton ghost to do this?

Nice one anyways omega!
 
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