| Registered: March 13, 2007 |  Posts: 951 |
| | Posted: | | | | What I usually do for backing up is, since hard drives are fairly inexpensive these days is I purchase a second hard drive. Most hard drives come with software that allows you to clone your original drive. So I clone the original and use the new drive to do my install for the new OS. If anything goes wrong I still have the original drive to fall back on. | | | Are you local?
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 |  Posts: 2,692 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Waxlion: Quote:
Don't have a suggestion for backup software, I think I just copied the "My Documents" folder. I suggest you check it actually has copied the files. My colleague tried this, windows said files were copied, but when he tried to copy them back there was nothing there  Acronis True Image. - I upgraded over the weekend and it saved my bacon - Windows 7 managed to totally crap over my PC (it didn't like my having a IDE drive as well as a SATA drive - it put some config files on the IDE even though I was installing on the SATA) so I did a 2nd install of windows with the IDE unplugged (and this time it didn't like the SATA controller card). So in order to give myself sometime I restored the image I had taken of the XP c drive on saturday - 6 mins later XP was running ok. Then on Sunday I tried again and all was fine (ide unplugged, additional sata card drivers on floppy) | | | | Paul | | | | Last edited: by pauls42 |
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