Re: Maxtor Backup failure - ping Anna! (about Acronis)

Anna wrote:
"chicagofan" <me7@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote
Well, the mystery is solved. The advertising was *false* for this drive. A Maxtor tech gave me the *super* secret link which states, their software on this drive will NOT back up:

* Operating System files that are in use.
* Hidden/System Files & Folder
* Microsoft Compressed Folders
* Microsoft Encrypted Folders

Since you so graciously offered to help with Acronis, what I want to be SURE of this time is, Acronis WILL copy my *entire* system [operating system files, etc.] as stated... from the Acronis site... right? :)


Barbara:
In a word -- yes. The Acronis program will accomplish your objective rather easily & effectively, i.e., it will "clone" the contents of your day-to-day working HD to another HD (internal or external) so that you will be able to restore your system from the cloned contents of this "destination" drive.

I wouldn't worry about your other programs "activating" during the backup routine. We usually recommend that the user disable his/her anti-virus and/or other anti-malware programs during the backup process, but that's about it. Are there some special programs running in the background that you're concerned with?

Just Avast AV which updates almost daily, and Windows Update.


Anyway, I recently had occasion to prepare some step-by-step instructions for using the Acronis True Image 9 program, as follows:

1. With both hard drives (source & destination disks) connected, boot up. If your destination disk (the recipient of the clone) is going to be another internal HD and not an external HD, then before you boot up, ensure that no other storage devices, e.g., flash drives, USB external hard drives, etc., are connected. It's also probably a good idea to shut down any programs you may have working in the background - including any anti-virus anti-spyware programs - before undertaking this disk-to-disk cloning operation.

I will be using the Maxtor USB external hard drive; will it need to be formatted after I remove the Maxtor backup software that came on it? Or will the "delete partitions on destination drive" [included in your instructions which I have saved, but deleted here] take care of that?

Thanks again, for your quick response!
bj
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