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Recently I had help from Rojash and others regarding creation of a full backup of my C drive on external HDD when I had a registry recovery problem which possibly indicated a failure of my hard drive. The problem turned out to be PSU failure and this has been replaced and I now have a Seagate external HDD installed. Acronis was recommended as suitable software and I have this and am trying to create a full back up (have created bootable CD) I am having a problem in that the wizard keeps telling me I am trying to save the copy to my C drive but I want to save to G.
Can anyone help with step by step instructions to get me started or a site which will do this. Perhaps I am being a bit 'thick' here but the 'help' file doesn't seem to be helping!! When advertised as plug and play I imagined it to be a simple as using a pen drive and maybe it is very easy when you know how.
Any assistance gratefully received thanks
Can anyone help with step by step instructions to get me started or a site which will do this. Perhaps I am being a bit 'thick' here but the 'help' file doesn't seem to be helping!! When advertised as plug and play I imagined it to be a simple as using a pen drive and maybe it is very easy when you know how.
Any assistance gratefully received thanks
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1) I assume the drive itself works fine? You can see it in My Computer and add and delete files as you like...
2) I assume it's an NTFS drive? Sometimes they're formatted as default to FAT32, which isn't really what you want (your internal drive is probably NTFS). I think it'll tell you this if you right-click the drive's icon in my computer and click properties. If not, you can go into control panel, then to the administrator folder, then into the computer management program (more information here http://www.ehow.com/how_6026_format-hard-drive .html )
Personally I've never used Acronis, I used to use Norton Ghost instead. It did the job, but wasn't that great.
2) I assume it's an NTFS drive? Sometimes they're formatted as default to FAT32, which isn't really what you want (your internal drive is probably NTFS). I think it'll tell you this if you right-click the drive's icon in my computer and click properties. If not, you can go into control panel, then to the administrator folder, then into the computer management program (more information here http://www.ehow.com/how_6026_format-hard-drive .html )
Personally I've never used Acronis, I used to use Norton Ghost instead. It did the job, but wasn't that great.
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