Re: What is the process to backup your hard drive and clean your existing hard drive?
- From: "Phillips" <afn18721@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 22 May 2005 11:31:48 -0400
As others mentioned, software free for personal use is not free for
commercial use; hence, you have to pay if you do not use the software for
your own machines at home.
Since it is much cheaper - and more convenient - to do-it-yourself, try to
simplify your work as much as possible. There are many ways to approach this
type of maintenance depending on your hardware (speed, capacity), software,
setup.
The simplest and fail safe is to have an additional internal hard-drive as
well as - for portability, emergency retrieval - at least one flash/pen
drive with your most precious data.
Just make sure that you have a partition where you put anything you need to
backup, and w/in that partition a 'most precious data' folder that you can
copy on the flash drive - compatible size.
Forget the imaging of the C (OS) partition since you can reinstall clean at
any time; you can save your personalized settings and reapply them after
install - to keep it easy.
For synchronizing the data partition with the secondary hard drive, you can
use customizable utilities available on the web - Kareen has such a small
yet convenient tool.
An external hard-drive might come in handy (portability, emergency,
dedicated backup software/routines) but there are complaints about fiability
and price.
Again, this is the simplest you can get and keep some degree of confidence
that you still have your data - or at least the critical ones - with minimal
time/money investment.
Michael
"Red" <rspahr1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> What is the process to backup your hard drive and clean your existing hard
> drive?
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> 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.
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> I do not believe that it cost that much for both software and hardware to
> clean a PC hard drive.
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> It is my understanding I am to
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> a) Copy my PC hard drive onto another PC hard drive.
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> b) Reformat my existing PC hard drive
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> c) Reload Operating system (Windows XP PRO)
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> d) Copy back from the 2nd PC hard drive onto the original hard drive
> Data files only
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> e) Reload Windows Office and any other software that was originally
> on the PC
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> My QUESTION to whom ever is what is the process to:
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> 1) Backup my PC Hard drive and
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> 2) Hardware and Software need
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> 3) What kind of cost should I expect to pay for these items.
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> 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.
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> Thanks for your response.
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