Hi,
Ive been thinking of backing up my hardrive for a while and how im ready and willing. I plan on buying a 320GB external hardrive to back up to even though my computers hardrive is only 80GB (might as well get one with room for the future). So what im wondering is should i get a program that makes an image of my entire hardrive (OS, files, programs, ect.) or get one that alllows me to just sellect what i want to back up. I think that making an image of my entire hardrive would be best because i have so much room on the external hardrive. But say my system fails, and i reformat my computer. After i reformate do i just copy the external hardrive back onto the the system? Is it that easy to get all my program, OS settings and everything back, if so this seems to be the best option. Are there any downfalls to backing up my entire hardrive if i have space to? can anyone recomend and software?
Sort of a second question, i plan on setting the program so it auto backups every day or so. What happens if i turn on my computer and relize my files are all gone (this has happened to me before)? Will the backup program think that i purposely deleted the files and take them off the my backup hardrive before i disable the program?
-Sorry for the long post
Thanks,
Peter
