Re: Drive D is suddenly "not formatted"
- From: a2mgoog@xxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2007 18:12:43 -0800 (PST)
On Dec 31, 5:40 am, "MaryL" <stanco...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
. This was a lot better than having the
same thing happen to Drive C -- that would have taken *many hours* of work
to replace all the programs and settings, whereas Drive D only held data
that I already have on other disks.
If you buy a Maxtor or Seagate retail kit, it comes with software that
is a simplified version of Acronis backup. You can also download it
for free from the Seagate website, and it will work if you have a
Seagate or Maxtor disk in your PC. It will allow you to take an image
of your C drive that can be stored on an external drive, and can be
restored in a few minutes. It also allows you to make a CD that you
can boot from (if your PC isn't too old) to run the software when
Windows won't boot.
As noted in another thread, you can partition your disk so that your
C: drive is only 10GB or so, and that's usually plenty as long as you
store your data on another drive or partition. I recently restored my
C drive using this software, and it only took 15 minutes. Another
benefit is that you can easily retrieve individual files from the
backup image; it just looks like another drive in Explorer.
.
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