try to backup and it puts 656Gb on backup drive

whs · 30 Jan 2012

I have initially used Windows7 imaging. But I found it to be very iffy and not very reliable, That's why I switched to free Macrium which has never given me any problems in backups and recoveries. T

here is also free Paragon which I have used a few times. It makes differentials which is nice if you are short of storage space. But I prefer full images. They are much easier to manage.

ignatzatsonic · 30 Jan 2012

martygene said:

ok. now that i have reinstalled Win7 64 and everything is fine and i made a backup of C: drive like i tried to do before all this happened, earlier you spoke of a better way to do backups. if you would, can you tell me of those opetions?
thanks

I'd use Macrium to backup my "system" (C partition) and use a "file-by-file" backup program to back up personal data. There are many of the latter--most of them free--which all work on the same principle.