Re: Is there an easy way to free up space on my Cdrive
[Re: psmith]
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02/28/11 12:47 AM
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Is there any software that will back up everything on the system drive so that I could restore and get quickly back up and running if something goes wrong?
To be more precise, something that will back up EVERYTHING. For instance, will it restore an activated version of Photoshop and Office to its working state? Preston, You can make an image of the partition using the Easus Easy Backup software at the same site you get the partition master at. I routinely make an image of my boot drive. On the one occasion when I lost the hard drive, I was back up in a half an hour after installing a new hard drive. I think everyone should keep an image of their boot drive with a known good configuration. It beats the hell out of a OEM recovery disk. Geo
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Re: Is there an easy way to free up space on my Cdrive
[Re: psmith]
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03/02/11 04:48 PM
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OK, here is the saga up until now.
I have tried and failed four times to clone the system drive and boot a new bigger drive using the Easeus software. Each cloning took about 8 hours for a 500GB drive <sigh>. I then purchased the Easeus Backup Workstation software and tried another cloning with it, another 8 hours and another failure to boot. Then I used same software to do a Backup rather than a Clone. At that point I felt comfortable using the nuclear option that Roman recommended which was to use the Partition software to resize the system drive in place on the original drive. First I shrunk the Vista drive (D) of most of its free space, a 4 hour operation, then I allocated the 100gb to the Windows 7 drive (C), a 6 hour operation. That just finished...AND IT WORKED!!!
Now I have removed the somewhat healthy resized system drive and I am using the Easeus Recovery program to attempt to build a new system drive on a 2TB platform. It says it will take 7 hours for that. If it works I will have a new system drive with plenty of space, and I'll set the 500gb drive in the safe for any future potential recovery. Preston, I admire your tenacity. I have been using the Easus software for about a year with both XP and Win7 and it has always worked without a hitch. I always use the backup (not the clone) to make an image of my boot drive of 150 gb. It takes about 20 min. I actually made a backup last night that took 19 min. The one time I had to restore the partition to a new drive also took about 30 min. The other nice thing about the backup is it only makes an image of the used space. I think it may even do some compression because my 150 Gb partition of which 95 is supposedly used, gives me a backup file of 87 Gb. I have never tried the "clone" option. I can see where that might take longer if it is doing a sector by sector dupe. My primary hard drive is a 1Tb drive with a 150Gb C: partition for the operating system (OS) and programs and a second D: partition for data. I've always believed it is a good idea to keep the operating system and data separate so that if the OS goes south it is easy to restore the C: partition without bothering the data partition. I would think with a duel boot config you could make a C: and D: partition for the 2 OSs and an E: partition for data. I can't believe it would take more that 150-200 Gb for OS and programs. My systems are all Windows and use NTSF formatted drives. I'm wondering if your duel boot configuration uses a different disk format which may be the reason things are not going so smoothly? Hope this helps and good luck getting your system back up. Geo
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