Backing up Hard Drive How??

[xtremsabu]

Yes what is the easiest way to make a backup of you whole hard drive?? I got a cdrw 24x 4x4x hp 8250i. I was wonder how do i go about make a backup of whole hard drivE?

Could i just use norton utlies and use that image thing?

[Wraith]

That should work.
I used an option in my burning program (Nero)
it has a built in option to make hd backup.

[BBA]

I tried to use Ghost to span images so they would all fit on CD-R's and after the 5th 650M span, it lost its span chain...

It all depends on the drive size, mine was too big!

[Axel]

Basic question - what's the back-up for?

Do you want to create another system?

Are you interested in saving your data?

Depending on what you want to accomplish, you'd go about it in a different way.

After all - if you have all of your software applications available to you, all you really need to back up is your data files which, typically, only actually make up a very small percentage of what's on your hard drive unless you do CAD drawings or other graphics intensive work.

What you might want to do is slave another hard drive onto your system, store all of your data files there and only back it up.

There really isn't a need to back up your operating system and stuff like Lotus or MS WORD.

However, if you are really paranoid about backing everything up, you might look into upgrading your system to SCSI, put in 3 to 5 2.1GB drives (if you can still find them that small) - and use a software RAID 5 solution so you never have to back anything up. ( keep those virus definitions current, of-course - the RAID thing is typically only for hardware failure recoveries )