Windows 7 Home Premium Imaging Issue

I wanted to image on an external USB HDD, but it wouldn't work because it appeared a sign saying my 400 GB External HDD doesn't have "NTFS" thing.

So... should i buy a new HDD with the NTFS system? or... well, i don't know too much about imaging, and i'm just starting now, because i formated my pc and i don't want to download all the programs i use in the future if i have to format again.

Thanks for your time and answers :)

you need to provide more details on your external HDD. Ideally a screen shot from windows "Disk Management". There is a tutorial on how to upload a screenshot using the windows snipping tool.

The NTFS reference is to how your external HDD needs to be formatted. If it's a free drive not used for other purposes (eg. with a Mac) then it's probably a very easy reformat job. We can help with that.

Here i have the screenshot of the disk management tool, sadly it is in spanish, but if you don't understand something just tell me, anyway i think the info appears in the same order than in english-language:



By the way, a doubt i have:

The NTFS reference is to how your external HDD needs to be formatted

That means i have to format my external HDD right? after doing that, i'm supposed to be able to:
1.- save an image of my pc
2.- store data (documents, music, back-ups, etc)

am I right?

Thanks for your time and answers

Yes and Yes. Formatting is very easy and someone has made a tutorial.
Format a HDD or USB

But remember all your data on the disk will be wiped. Apples/Macs do not support NTFS.

Thanks!!! Now i have my ext. HDD with NTFS and i could store an image (coming from win7 backup tools)

Now, i'll store a Free-Macrium image, (if the win7-image doesn't work ).

Thanks again!

kado897 said:

Don't forget to test whether you can see your backup drive from the recovery disks.

For checking that i should create a backup-disk from Macrium, boot with it, and see if i can find my ext. HDD?

am i right?

thx :)