Restoring External Drives?
- Thread starter jack1953
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I haven't tried it but I believe that programs like Acronis Home image will create an image of an external drive and then restore it. I know that I have done it for my separate D drive on my Laptop. There might be a couple of free ones out there that will do this also.
Rich
My Computer
- Computer type
- Laptop
- Computer Manufacturer/Model Number
- Toshiba Laptop Qosimo X870
- OS
- Windows 7 Pro x64 SP1
- CPU
- Intel Core I7
- Motherboard
- Toshiba Qosmio
- Memory
- 16 Gigs
- Graphics Card(s)
- NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670M
- Monitor(s) Displays
- 17.7" laptop
- Screen Resolution
- 1600 x 900
- Hard Drives
- 256 Gig SanDisk SSD for C
256 Gig Intel SSD for D
- Internet Speed
- 50/25 FIOS
- Antivirus
- Vipre (all you can eat for 10 machines)
- Browser
- IE and FF
- Other Info
- I have dos 6.22, wfwg 3.11, win98, 2000 and xp VHD's available for testing. MS's Virtual PC works great.
With free Macrium you can image and restore any drive or partition. With Windows imaging you are very restricted. I would not use that.
My Computer
- Computer Manufacturer/Model Number
- HP, Dell, Gateway, Toshiba - 4 laptops and 2 desktops
- OS
- Vista, Windows7, Mint Mate, Zorin, Windows 8
- CPU
- from 1.6GHz Duo to i7
- Monitor(s) Displays
- 2x HP w2207
- Hard Drives
- 5x HDD, 7x SSD, 12x Externals
- Keyboard
- with trackball - no mices
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- Trackball mice
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- DSL 6000
Based on past experience, I would really want to make sure that the image did work correctly with any program. give it a shot and try to restore to a 3rd external hard disk to give yourself a warm fuzzy. Especially if the data that your backing up is critical. Sometimes just copying the data to another device works great.
Rich
Rich
My Computer
- Computer type
- Laptop
- Computer Manufacturer/Model Number
- Toshiba Laptop Qosimo X870
- OS
- Windows 7 Pro x64 SP1
- CPU
- Intel Core I7
- Motherboard
- Toshiba Qosmio
- Memory
- 16 Gigs
- Graphics Card(s)
- NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670M
- Monitor(s) Displays
- 17.7" laptop
- Screen Resolution
- 1600 x 900
- Hard Drives
- 256 Gig SanDisk SSD for C
256 Gig Intel SSD for D
- Internet Speed
- 50/25 FIOS
- Antivirus
- Vipre (all you can eat for 10 machines)
- Browser
- IE and FF
- Other Info
- I have dos 6.22, wfwg 3.11, win98, 2000 and xp VHD's available for testing. MS's Virtual PC works great.
Rich has a good point. Trying it out before always helps - especially to make yourself familiar with the recovery procedure which is usually not well documented.
I use a little 2GB test partition for that. You can shrink that off any large partition. Put some odd data in and image it. Then delete some data from the test partition and restore it from the image. If your deleted data is back, you know that it works.
Using a small 2GB partition has the advantage that the whole procedure will be very fast. Using free Macrium, the imaging step takes only 4 seconds.
I use a little 2GB test partition for that. You can shrink that off any large partition. Put some odd data in and image it. Then delete some data from the test partition and restore it from the image. If your deleted data is back, you know that it works.
Using a small 2GB partition has the advantage that the whole procedure will be very fast. Using free Macrium, the imaging step takes only 4 seconds.
My Computer
- Computer Manufacturer/Model Number
- HP, Dell, Gateway, Toshiba - 4 laptops and 2 desktops
- OS
- Vista, Windows7, Mint Mate, Zorin, Windows 8
- CPU
- from 1.6GHz Duo to i7
- Monitor(s) Displays
- 2x HP w2207
- Hard Drives
- 5x HDD, 7x SSD, 12x Externals
- Keyboard
- with trackball - no mices
- Mouse
- Trackball mice
- Internet Speed
- DSL 6000
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