Why and how do I go about making a back up copy of my hard drive on PC?

Answer 1

you should go to program what asked you that and follow instruction as program tell you . you will need a few disc so be ready

Answer 2

Well you could take an "image" of the drive using a utility such as norton Ghost, which you will probably have to back that up on to something like an external usb drive.

Or what you can do, which is what i do, is keep all your documents, photo's music etc, all the stuff which you cant replace on a seperate drive or seperate partition to you windows drive (normally C) and then back that up to a DVD or external drive regulary.

If windows goes wrong and you have to reinstall it, its no big deal to format the windows partition, leaving all your music, photo's and documents on the other partition or drive.

External usb drives are quite cheap now.

Hope this helps

Answer 3

You will need another hard drive to store the backup on and a piece of software called Ghost.

This isvery reliable software although there are others. You can get it at the computer store or online. The best way to use it from a floppy.

Good luck. It is an excellent plan you have.

Answer 4

I prefer Acronis True Image, its easy to use, reliable and less than £20 from Amazon.
You burn your image to disc, then if anything goes wrong you just overwrite from the disc image.
Its better to back up off your hard drive, in case your hard drive fails. An external hard drive will take your files, or you can burn them to cd.

Answer 5

You have make backup of your hard drive beacuse you have many things about your harddrive and what you do if this is fall?
This is better that do it not on your pc beacuse if your harddrive is go off, your backup is go also.
You can use CD or USB drive (flash drive)
You can use many programs that help you to do it.
you can try this software or find another on the web:
Open Directory - Computers: Software: Freeware: Backup
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Freeware downloads System Utilities - Backup Tools at SnapFiles.com
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Shareware/Freeware: Backup software
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this is the links:
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hope that I help you

Answer 6

there are many online backup services. some free and some not. the paid ones are more reliable and have more features. some of the paid ones will backup your hard drive on a preset schedule automatically.

http://www.google.com/search?q=online+file+backup+services

Answer 7

I like Norton Ghost. It does normal backups and can also restore your entire PC if needed.