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Need a GOOD hard drive backup.

I use this and it works great.

»www.roxio.com/en/products/goback···3IAVBVQQ

it does NOT however protect from a hardware failure. But most of my problems came from programs and the OS

reply to Zev0
I really like norton ghost and I believe it has the capabilities to backup data onto another drive.:)
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Use PowerQuest's Drive Image 5.0 and be absolutely certain that your files are safe. Drive Image is the easy answer for protecting all the valuable data on your hard drive, as well as providing disaster recovery and system upgrade solutions. Using a familiar Windows interface, you can create an exact copy of your entire hard drive or partition in minutes, onto a Zip®, Jaz®, CD-R/W, or another partition. That way, when the inevitable virus or system crash occurs, you will have an exact image of your drive secured, ready to use.
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reply to Zev0
I vote for Norton Ghost. Can backup or restore your entire system in no time. I have restored my entire C: drive containing 10GB of data in about 30 minutes. Has never failed me.

Good info guys. I like and use BOTH Ghost 2002 and DI 5.0.
I have backup images of my C: drive with both utilities and a backup on a separate partition.

With DI 5, you can even schedule regular, unattended, backups. This way you get current, frequent backups of your data, files, configuration. You can also recover individual files and folders with Ghost and DI, from Windows.

reply to Zev0
ZevO, I really like Ghost. You can read these guides to see what it's like. And you'll see how to restore.

»ghost.radified.com/

»www.pcnineoneone.com/howto/image2.html?

If you get Ghost also be sure to also read over the Ghost FAQs at the Symantec site. I believe there's a link to it at the first link above.

reply to Zev0
I have 2 Hard Drives. Will Drive Image enable me to make an exact copy of my Primary HD to the Secondary HD?
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reply to Zev0
in a word Yes.

I have 2 HD's
My primary is a 15 GIG
My secondary is 45 GIG devided up into 3 partitions.

I use drive image and make a complete image to partition 1 on second drive.
then next month I make another image to partition 2 on second drive.

I always have 2 months of images on hand.

Drive image also comes with datakeeper(free I think) which I use the third partition for. It makes automatic backups of all files inbetween my major images.

I would say this is idiot proof( since I can do it:) )

unless both Hard drives blow up at the same time I feel pretty safe.
BTW it takes about 20 minutes to image 12 GIG.

reply to bobbagels
Short answer: Yes, Long answer: Yes. That's exactly what I do all the time. About every two or 3 images I'll burn a copy off to CDR to file away.
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said by auto:

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I always have 2 months of images on hand.

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reply to Zev0
AH but the best part is I've never had to use them.:)

Ummm I guess we should mention Goback here also.
I had goback for a while (before drive image) But I couldn't take all the HD thrashing. ANd It made some games jerky.

Well, thanks for all the helpful information and input gang. Looks like Drive Image 5 is the thing to go for. If I need help I sure know where to go.

reply to auto
I also have Goback running. I'm not into gaming so that is not a concern. What I don't like is I have to disable Goback in order to run Drive Image.
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