djoni
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mirror C drive - HELP
Hi,
What is the best way of having my C drive (where win 7, programs and plugs are installed) so that I have a bootable exact copy in case my C dive one day fails???
Thank you
joni
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mudgel
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Re: mirror C drive - HELP
2015/03/14 06:04:08
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Use something like Paragon or Acronis to make a complete image of your C drive
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DoctorCalabria
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Re: mirror C drive - HELP
2015/03/14 08:01:38
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I use Macrium Reflect and I swear by it. Paragon, Acronis, etc, I think they all do basically the same thing. It has saved the day on several occasions; I've also used it to clone to a larger C: drive as SSD prices have dropped.
I suspect they all have fully functional demos to compare interfaces before you buy. Whichever product you use, 1) always add the "WinPE" option on the startup menu, and do it before you make your first image, 2) always make the WinPE rescue CD/DVD and 3) always image to a removable device and/or net drive. I do both and keep the removable drive off site. If you can clone your OS after you customize it to your liking but before you add your DAW stuff, and then make another image/clone after all Sonar and plugins, then make scheduled incremental backups, you will never be more than an hour or so away from a fresh system even under catastrophic failure conditions. I sleep much better now that I do the above.
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js516
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Re: mirror C drive - HELP
2015/03/14 09:51:19
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I use clonezilla, which I made into a bootable USB thumbdrive. I pop the thumb drive in to boot into clonezilla, and image the drive to an external hard drive.
Easy peasy, and open souce ;)
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TerraSin
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Re: mirror C drive - HELP
2015/03/14 22:08:24
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Clonezilla
Easy to use, free.
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slartabartfast
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Re: mirror C drive - HELP
2015/03/16 12:33:44
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TerraSin
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Re: mirror C drive - HELP
2015/03/16 12:50:45
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Interesting. I didn't think System Image did a complete backup of the whole hard drive.
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Re: mirror C drive - HELP
2015/03/16 18:11:01
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I would check out xxclone. http://www.xxclone.com/ixclnfaq.htmBe warned that several programs are likely to see a new boot disk as a new system, so you may need to reinstall or reregister products like addictive drums. I think the quickest and easiest thing to do is pick up a physical hard disk duplicator for 50 bucks or so. They're pretty quick.
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TerraSin
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Re: mirror C drive - HELP
2015/03/17 00:58:05
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swamptooth
I would check out xxclone. http://www.xxclone.com/ixclnfaq.htm
Be warned that several programs are likely to see a new boot disk as a new system, so you may need to reinstall or reregister products like addictive drums. I think the quickest and easiest thing to do is pick up a physical hard disk duplicator for 50 bucks or so. They're pretty quick.
Never had that issue with Clonezilla when I've upgraded to bigger HDDs.
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Re: mirror C drive - HELP
2015/03/17 01:12:42
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I didn't think clonezilla made bootable clones. I thought you made an image then restored from a clonezilla USB thumb or CD.
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TerraSin
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Re: mirror C drive - HELP
2015/03/17 12:52:33
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Not exactly, you plug both hard drives in and boot from USB or CD outside Windows, then it simply mirrors the drive completely as it is without having to create an image.
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slartabartfast
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Re: mirror C drive - HELP
2015/03/17 13:59:20
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TerraSin
Interesting. I didn't think System Image did a complete backup of the whole hard drive.
That's the point. The system image in Windows will do a full image of selected partition(s). So if you have partitioned your physical hard drive, you just need to include the other partitions to get a full image. If your hard drive is a single partition, you just back up that partition. The downside, is that selectively including/excluding particular files is not possible, which is an option with some other methods, and it is somewhat more complex to mount a Windows created system image as a partition in order to restore single selected files. http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/34630/how-to-recover-specific-files-from-a-windows-system-image/
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