Cloning your hard drive?

Question

I just read an article about cloning your hard drive. As I have a home-based medical transcription business I think this would be an excellent idea. I have a lot of patient records and store for one year.

I would like to use an external hard drive. Is that the best way to go? Which is the best brand to get? What programs are needed to do this? I'm not a computer expert, but I transferred files from an older computer to the one I have now. That's the basic idea right?

Answer 1

tm-ar&k,



Since you have a business to run at home, I'm sure you want to do what's best for it. Here's a link to check out that has external drives. They aren't as fast as a regular hard drive, but can be very useful as backups. This link is backed up by pcword, too.



http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,123728;page,1/article.html



Another thought is to get a second hard drive. Below is a link that gives you information on this, too. They much faster then the external drives.



http://www.infohq.com/Computer/buying-second-hard-drive.htm



Good luck with your business.



PJ M

Answer 2

Since you possess each rough drives... It's now not unlawful (within the USA) to clone your rough force. It's been a authorized precedent for decades that a backup of your media is authorized, so long as you're now not utilizing the backup while because the usual. It is in opposition to the licensing of many portions of application to make use of the moment rough force to run a moment replica of a application while (sure, an OS is a application) If you place one other laptop in combination, caught your historic force in it, and began it up, technically that could be unlawful (copyright infringement). Yes, although home windows refused as well, you had to make use of side of home windows to look if home windows could paintings. ;>

Answer 3

Acronis True Image is the software you need.



http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing/products/trueimage/



As far as external hard drives are concerned - look at the warranty period. Maxtor will give 5 years whereas the majority only give 2 years for an external drive.



wdw

Answer 4

Hi tm-ar&k,



If you wanna backup the files for your business, you'd better choose Acronis True Image,Home Page:

http://www.acronis.com/enterprise/products/ATIES/

For disaster recovery and system migration in both physical and virtual environments, Acronis True Image Echo Enterprise Server delivers greater flexibility and value for networked Windows and Linux servers

Is server downtime costing you thousands of dollars an hour? Acronis® True Image Echo Enterprise Server is a comprehensive Windows and Linux server backup and disaster recovery solution that allows you to get back to business as quickly as possible, minimizing downtime.



But if you only wanna backup your PC, I use "Symantec Ghost", of course it has windows version, but i perfer DOS version. There's lots of free version on internet. It supports the other software as the core, such as One Key backup(一键恢复)



Sometime, I see lots of IT OEM company use "easyrecovery "to backup their PCs.



Good Luck!



LYN

Toronto, ON