Clean install - backing up with a partition


  1. mbartelsm
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    Clean install - backing up with a partition


    I'm doing a clean install of windows, I want to know if it's possible to back up my data using a HD partition
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  3. theog
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    Would best to backup to External HD Drive.
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  4. mbartelsm
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    I would if I could.
    I don't have any kind of external mass storage device, the most I have are a couple of 4 Gb flash drives
    Also, I saw some reviews about double driver to back up drivers, is it good? and what drivers should I back up? all of them? only those not made by microsoft? none?
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  6. Mark Phelps
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    I used double-drive to backup drivers and it works great. It creates a filesystem of all the drivers you choose to backup. I copied this to USB and recently, when I did a trial install on a laptop of Win8, I was able to install all the "missing" drivers from the USB stick in only a couple of minutes.
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  7. bigmck
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    mbartelsm said:
    I'm doing a clean install of windows, I want to know if it's possible to back up my data using a HD partition
    Yes, it is. I prefer using Macrium Reflect to backup. Macrium Reflect FREE Edition - Information and download You can make another partition on your HDD and backup all partitions on your PC, using different backup files, to the one backup partition. Be sure and backup the 100 MB boot file if you have one. The backup file is about half of the size of the partition that is being backed up.
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