Backup Hard Drive

[pcmechfan#1]

I have two questions for this topic.

1. II backed up my hard drive with nero and it took 9 dvd's, It stored the files as .DAT files. I was wanting to know how to transfer the saved info back onto my HDD.

2. Is there any other method/program that you recommend I use to do a backup where I can put what files I saved back onto the re formatted hdd istead of the who image?

[jollyjohn]

G'day
Acronis TrueImage and Norton Ghost make an exact image of your HDD. You can save to DVD, HDD partition or second or third HDD and re install any time you run into problems. I Keep tree images in the slave HDD, about ten days appart of each other. If, or, when I have problems I dont try too hard to fix it. I just install the latest image. Make sure you scan for viruses, clean files and reg. and defrag before making an image.
John

[Noizxland]

I think you just waste time creating 9 DVD with Nero. I'm afraid that you won't be able to recover correctly your data. I know more convenient and faster way. I use hard drive backup, create an exact image of my HDD and keep this image on my PC and another copy on the several CD-RW or DVD disks (it takes not much space due too highest level of compression). And recover it when I need. Also this software allows make a bootable CD. This image contains all data and apps, so after restoring it works correctly.

[pcmechfan#1]

Originally Posted by jollyjohn G'day Acronis TrueImage and Norton Ghost make an exact image of your HDD. You can save to DVD, HDD partition or second or third HDD and re install any time you run into problems. I Keep tree images in the slave HDD, about ten days appart of each other. If, or, when I have problems I dont try too hard to fix it. I just install the latest image. Make sure you scan for viruses, clean files and reg. and defrag before making an image. John

Would you mind telling me what program you use and how you create your tree images.

[jollyjohn]

Originally Posted by pcmechfan#1 Would you mind telling me what program you use and how you create your tree images.

G'day
I use "Acromis tru image". It is very user friendly. Easy to use. You just follow the prompts/instructions. Select the drive or partition you want to image, name it (I use the courrent date as a name) then select where you want to save it.
john

[pcmechfan#1]

Thanks