Can this be easily done? I have a 40 gig hard drive that I would like to back up.?

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Thanks and peace-

Answer 1

It's called a "ZIP-DRIVE" ( a zip folder) and yes, I did it before I took my 'puter in to have it restored to the original state.
It's as easy as uploading anything to a disk. When you are ready, all you do is download what you uploaded to that disk, back onto your 'puter.
Go to the store where you bought it, and ask their 'tech's to tell you how to get one (a "zip drive"), and how to do it. I'm sure not the one to ask!!! LOL (I've probably already botched up the verbage here!)
(That's what they're there for. )

Peace to you

Answer 2

If you have a Windows OS and want to back it up, try searching the internet for Bart PE and DriveImage XML. It's a bit advanced, you have to burn a CD with the "plug-ins" you want included on it (there should be lots of download links available for different things you can include on your "PE" OS. But it's free, except for the cost of the CD, and works great.

You actually boot up from the CD into an environment that is similar to Windows, but only has whatever applications ("plug-ins") you put on the cd when you burn it. You will need a Windows XP setup disc while making the disc (it will ask you to insert it into the drive at a specific point). For backups, use the DriveImage XML plug-in.

Once that thing is made, you can boot up the Bart PE environment, backup complete partitions and save them to any partition that is big enough to store them (including a USB or Firewire drive), as well as restore those backups to a partition. Very nice software for the price... FREE.

There are a lot of other "paid for" applications out there to backup your partitions and restore them. Before I found BartPE and DriveImage XML, I tried out "Drive Image" by Powerquest. That seemed to work pretty good, but it wasn't free. And since then I have upgraded to a Mac, and Drive Image does not work on my Macbook Pro. It doesn't like the unknown partitioning schemes that Mac's HFS+ system uses or something.

If you have a Mac, and are wanting to backup entire partitions on your drive, the free solution that is available is called "Super Duper." Like DriveImage XML, "SD" can backup and restore your drives to any other drive that is big enough to hold it. Only, this software does not allow you to store it as a file on the disc. It literally clones one partition to another one, so all existing data on the destination partition will be destoyed. That's the free version. I don't know what the paid version will do, here.

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Answer 3

Nero BackItUp Is a program for backing up and restoring data. Nero BackItUp saves files,
(file backup), as well as programs and operating systems (drive backup).
Open files can be backed up with the shadow copy feature, while you continue to work on
the file. You can burn the backup to a disc, or save it to hard drive, or on an FTP server.
Saving as image file is also possible. With Nero BackItUp you can verify that the backed up
data is complete and correct at any time.
Use Nero BackItUp to set up jobs for regular data backup that are executed automatically.
Nero BackItUp can create bootable discs, and if necessary it can restore a previously
backed up system.

Answer 4

go to best buy and get a 100 or 200 gig external backup. well worth the money and can be used with almost any device

Answer 5

yes it can be easily done