Re: What is the process to backup your hard drive and clean your existing hard drive?
- From: Not Me <nobody@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 22 May 2005 12:04:33 -0400
Red,
Imaging (cloning) a drive and backing up essential files are essentially two different functions. Cloning the drive copies everything so that you can restore everything exactly as it functioned at the point of the image. Back up programs essentially copy such things as your personal files (i.e,, My Documents, address book, E-Mail, etc) which you would otherwise lose if you had to re-install Windows.
Norton's Ghost 9 [about $70] or Acronis True Image [about $50] are likely the best known and most used of the disk image programs. User's of either claim they are effective. There are too many backup programs to mention (I have Genie Backup Manager Pro 6.0). Look around and pick one.
To keep add ware/spy ware off your computer, download and use the presently free Microsoft tool from here: http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/spyware/software/default.mspx . There are other free ones such as Spybot and AddAware. If you do not presently have an anti-virus program, use the free one from AVG.
If your Computer now works as it should, you DO NOT need to do anything else at present except procure and install an additional Hard Drive. You received some bad guidance/advice.
The Computer shop probably has thousands of dollars in hardware/software available but did not use anywhere near that much to clean your system. What you mostly paid for was labor and knowledge.
Welcome to the real world of Computer use!
Gene K
Red wrote:
What is the process to backup your hard drive and clean your existing hard drive?
I spent some money to have my hard drive eradicated of SPAM and Spy-ware. And it works beautifully again. I asked the technicians what their process was and they replied they have hardware and software in the $1000+ to perform this process.
I do not believe that it cost that much for both software and hardware to clean a PC hard drive.
It is my understanding I am to
a) Copy my PC hard drive onto another PC hard drive.
b) Reformat my existing PC hard drive
c) Reload Operating system (Windows XP PRO)
d) Copy back from the 2nd PC hard drive onto the original hard drive Data files only
e) Reload Windows Office and any other software that was originally on the PC
My QUESTION to whom ever is what is the process to:
1) Backup my PC Hard drive and
2) Hardware and Software need
3) What kind of cost should I expect to pay for these items.
4) Can this be done by connecting an external or internal hard drive to my existing PC or must I buy another PC to perform this task.
Thanks for your response.
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