Hard drive copying to another hard drive

1.2f said:
i have just purchased a 2nd external hard-drive 1tb. the 1st hard-drive has all my doc's and pictures and music on it. the hard-drive in the laptop only has the software programs on it.

i'd like to get the 2nd external drive to back up the 1st external drive. can someone advise on how to do this please.

also are there any programs which can protect the material on the drives. something with a password so if the drive was taken and someone tried to view it on another machine they would need a password etc.
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http://www.truecrypt.org/
 
was last year neil when i tried. sort of forgot......
 
i downloaded and installed discwizard. having done the back up i now cant see my 1tb drive on the pc. any suggestions please.
 
Once you've sorted the disappearing problem..

If all you want to do is copy stuff from one drive to another I'd keep it simple and just use MS synctoy. Easy to use and fairly quick incrementing backup copy with new files. OK it will not be encrypted but I'd rather keep the drive secure than complicate getting to what is on it.
 
Try it on another computer if you can.

If it's not showing in computer management/disk manager then it sounds like it has gone faulty.
 
ok guys the 1tb hd failed after first use.

so now have a new one.

again all i want to do is back up my 500gb external drive upon which i keep all my photos and files. the hd on the laptop only has the software programs on it.

i just need a program which will do a back up automatically of the 500gb drive but i would like somehting which will also prevent prying eyes if they tried to access either drive on another pc.

pls advise.....
 
OK folks, Acronis... which version do you recommend for a general backup solution.

I basically want a piece of software that will backup my photos to multiple locations. Disk imaging would be a bonus, but I don't use it for my OS at the moment...
 
RichardtheSane said:
OK folks, Acronis... which version do you recommend for a general backup solution.

I basically want a piece of software that will backup my photos to multiple locations. Disk imaging would be a bonus, but I don't use it for my OS at the moment...
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I've never used Acronis but assume it is just disk imaging software.

I'd use the disk image backup built into windows for making a system disk image.
Photo copies drive to drive and updates as you add more I'd do with MS synctoy. Couldn't be much simpler to use.
 
RichardtheSane said:
OK folks, Acronis... which version do you recommend for a general backup solution.

I basically want a piece of software that will backup my photos to multiple locations. Disk imaging would be a bonus, but I don't use it for my OS at the moment...
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I use True Image 2012, the latest is True Image 2013 and you can download a trial to see what you think of it.
I'm not sure that it will backup to multiple locations at the same time (I've never tried) but you can certainly schedule it to backup to different locations at different times e.g. Location 1 Monday, Location 2 Tuesday etc or Location 1 14:00hrs, Location 2 16:00 hrs etc.

It'll do image or file backup.
 
RobertP said:
I've never used Acronis but assume it is just disk imaging software.

I'd use the disk image backup built into windows for making a system disk image.
Photo copies drive to drive and updates as you add more I'd do with MS synctoy. Couldn't be much simpler to use.
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Cheers :thumbs:

I've messed with synctoy, but not successfully managed to get it to run without my intervention... does it run automatically/silently at all?
 
RichardtheSane said:
Cheers :thumbs:

I've messed with synctoy, but not successfully managed to get it to run without my intervention... does it run automatically/silently at all?
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You have to use the Windows Task Scheduler, haven't needed to try that yet though.
 
TCR4x4 said:
I can't reccomended carbonite enough. It's on an online backup solution. It automatically backs up all your files and folders to thier servers. My H&S died last week, so I bought a new one, redownloaded all my files back to the new drive and carried on as normal.
In the top package, it does full drive mirroring, including program's and OS. The package I'm on just does folders and files. It was a lifesaver... Especially as in the same week, my external home server which has dual drive mirroring of my of my pc also failed! I'd have lost everything.
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I use carbonite too, the folders and files package:)
not had a problem yet but its nice to hear that it saved your files:)
I also did a mirror to another spare drive with windows 7 just to save the hassle of reloading all my software if the hardrive fails
 
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