External Hardrive - Page 9

roystheboy · 05-08-2010, 12:13

Wont the CD that came with the p.C. reboot it ,or should I do a cd from Acronis ,I have cleared the downloads ready just waiting to go now lol cheers take care

DaiNasty · 05-08-2010, 12:34

To do your full system backup use the installed Acronis program on your pc.

To do a restore from a backup you can use the original acronis cd or the rescue disk. Either one will work.

05-08-2010, 12:41

the cd that come with the pc will only work with the pc recovery console

roystheboy · 05-08-2010, 13:26

OKAYDOKAY thanks ill do that cheers take care best regards roy.

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done the bootable CD worked fine didnt take long hope its O.K. is there anyway I can try it thanks

DaiNasty · 05-08-2010, 13:35

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Originally Posted by roystheboy

done the bootable CD worked fine didnt take long hope its O.K. is there anyway I can try it thanks

Bung it in the cd drive and reboot your pc. It should start the acronis loader and eventually show you a menu. If it gets that far it should be ok.

(That's assuming your pc is set to boot from cd first)

roystheboy · 05-08-2010, 14:04

hi it wont mess up my pc will it if it dont work I will be able to get back to normal will I thanks

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O.K. guys I put it in and got Recovery Manager is that O.K. thanks

Matty_ · 05-08-2010, 22:08

Sounds like your getting there Roy, nice 1. Have you tried doing a back up with Acronis yet?
Maybe a good place to start would be to go to Computer->Double click your new Hard Drive letter F:
Now Right Click in an empty space, scroll down to New and select Folder. A new folder should appear and you can give it an appropriate name say My Backups. (depending on when you installed Acronis you may allready have on called My Backups)
This will be where you browse to when you are asked for the destination of the Archive (Archive Location).

p.s. Your not being a pain Roy, believe it or not most of us enjoy helping people sort things out, and the only dumb question is the one not asked

roystheboy · 06-08-2010, 00:15

hi Matty yes there is a folder in the new hardrive called my backups,just a question you know the backup that I just done on a disc how would I put that back onto my P.C. if my P.C. crashed ,I know I got to do a backup onto the new hardrive ill do that soon its I just wanted to know how to get it all back on if something hapend cheers take care

06-08-2010, 00:18

the cd does not contain a back up

roystheboy · 06-08-2010, 00:34

hi what was the point of doing it then ,just a question it dont make sence whats it for ,thanks cheers

06-08-2010, 01:02

you back up to your spare hard drive an image of your operating system.

If your operating system fails then you boot from a recovery cd which allows you to copy the image back onto the main hard drive thus restoring to state the PC to the time which you took the back up.

A cd only holds 700 Mb your operating system alone will measure at least 5 Gb you do the math there is no way you can fit all that data on a cd

06-08-2010, 06:46

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Originally Posted by roystheboy

hi what was the point of doing it then ,just a question it dont make sence whats it for ,thanks cheers

The point of the 'recovery' cd is that you need something to boot up to if your main hard drive fails/gets a virus

- once you boot to the recovery cd you can then access the backup on the external harddrive & restore the contents to a new main hard drive (if the old one has failed), or overwrite the infected one (if it has a virus).

- you can't just boot up the external harddrive.

roystheboy · 06-08-2010, 08:20

Hi so what you are saying if my P.C. goy Infected and wouldnt come on all I need to do is put this CD in and get back to Windows Vista Then conect my External hardrive and put It all back in from there is that right hope so thanks take care Roy

DaiNasty · 06-08-2010, 08:39

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Originally Posted by roystheboy

Hi so what you are saying if my P.C. goy Infected and wouldnt come on all I need to do is put this CD in and get back to Windows Vista Then conect my External hardrive and put It all back in from there is that right hope so thanks take care Roy

Very close Roy. You boot from the recovery cd with your external drive connected. Then you use the 'recovery' option from the menu to copy the backup across to your pc. This replaces *everything* so it puts your pc back to exactly as it was when you made the backup.

roystheboy · 06-08-2010, 09:35

Hi Thanks sorry for all these Questions why I am asking them is a few months ago my P.C. crashed blue screen everthing went ,so i called an engineer out off a local paper he came out and fixed it after about three hours and it cost me £83 pounds ,thats why I got this hardrive and thought I would like to fix it myself if it should hapen again and you guys have been great puting up with me ,I know DaiNasty explained but i just need to know from when it goes again because if it goes I wont have you guys around till I get back on line,So if it goes conect my hardrive put the CD in and start the P.C. up is there anything else I need to do because I havent got as far as a restore yet cheers guys take care