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The images are only about 60% the total amount of space used on the drive. It leaves out the page file, hibernation file, temp files, and other things not needed or that will be remade by Windows. (Well, if you want to get technical, it doesn't back up 'everything'. Images are the best backups possible because they back up everything, without exception. So you have all your personal files backed up and accessible, too. On top of all that, the images can be assigned drive letter so you can get files and folders out of them without restoring the whole image. All your programs, settings, and Windows itself all back from the dead. In the event of a hard drive failure, you put in your new drive, boot the machine with the Acronis CD, restore your image, and you're back where you were when the image was made instead of at 0 (when the machine was new). And it deletes the oldest automatically, too. They have built-in schedules, like the 'Grandfather-Father-Son' schedule that makes sure you have daily backups as well as older ones. (Not sure, but I think the free Macrium allows schedules to be made, too.) All you need do is check once in a while to be sure all is working as it should. It has a scheduler that you can set up to make new backups and delete the oldest ones all automatically. If you don't mind spending some cash, and believe me, if you have ever lost everything to a failed drive, the price will seem small, most of us here use Acronis True Image.

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For free ones, Macrium is almost an Acronis clone.

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(Don't forget to make a CD with a bootable operating system so you have a place to work from when the machine won't boot otherwise - that needs to be made as soon as you install the backup software and tested to be sure it can access your backups and has drivers for your hardware.)Īcronis is popular here (I use Backup & Recovery rather than True Image, but they are similar). Then you can even dispense with System Restore if you want and you'll always be able to just pop in a new drive and be back to where you were in less than an hour.

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With images, you can greatly reduce the size of your backup because page files and other unnecessary things are not backed up, and you can make 'incremental' backups after the first full one that only include changes from the original, so they are quick to make and thus more likely to be recent. A clone would be an identical drive set up identically. Just FYI: What you want is not a 'clone' but an image or full backup.

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My questions are can this be done, can it be done with my docking station (or would I need a specific driver perhaps) and can it be done freely with software I can find on the internet. The problem I have is that is seems like a mine-field in terms of software, do's and don'ts, can and cant's and each time I try do this I get bogged down in reading hundreds of different and contradicting posts, and give up.

Which incidentally has done in the past and why I'm trying to be pro-active now. What I really want it to do is take an image of the whole operating system and data and transplant it onto the USB hard drive so that if I get a problem with my laptop, I can just transfer it all back on to it, or a new hard drive I've put in it if it happens to die.

I have actually not really used it seriously because when I realised the software it came with (PC clone EX Lite) does not really clone, it only has a facility to back up user specified data, I was somewhat disappointed and gave up. I wonder if any one can help with my scenario regarding backing up / imaging and the relevant software.to explain, I bought a one touch backup system a few years ago so I could back up my laptop data onto a seperate hard drive.