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Making a files and system backup is easy ...
Oct 9th, 2016 at 10:09am
 
The hard part is finding a way to view what has been backed up and then choosing what you want to restore to the main harddrive.



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Reply #1 - Oct 11th, 2016 at 8:41am
 
You god damn hippies, I swear. You have to assign your back up harddrive first with a letter like drive "D" so the OS system can read it as a secondary partition drive.

Learn how to do it using disk management in your device manager.
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Reply #2 - Oct 11th, 2016 at 10:26am
 
Marla wrote on Oct 11th, 2016 at 8:41am:
You god damn hippies, I swear. You have to assign your back up harddrive first with a letter like drive "D" so the OS system can read it as a secondary partition drive.

Learn how to do it using disk management in your device manager.


... but? ... grumble ... grumble ...

Disk Management? Okay, I'll check that out. I use to have no trouble using Acronis and Macrium, but for my sins it's all gone pear-shaped since then.

The transfer WAS made to the external drive 'G', which took 1 hr 28 mins, but upon opening up the Backup now lodged in this ext. hard drive, there's just a list of indecipherable coded numbers and lettering that tells me nothing about what files and folder are for my choosing.

Never mind!

Instead of the Window 10 inbuilt Backup facility, I'll use FREE imported one off Google - probably Macrium Reflect which I've had success with in the past.



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Reply #3 - Oct 16th, 2016 at 5:43pm
 
The Macrium Backup didn't work.
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Reply #4 - Oct 16th, 2016 at 6:13pm
 


Sorry Herbert,

You have totally misunderstood this 'public forum' concept.

Unfortunately, self fulfilling prophecies don't work like this.   ------- >

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yes, you can create a thread called;

"Making a files and system backup is easy"


but the magic appearance of solutions doesn't work this way.           Wink


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Reply #5 - Oct 16th, 2016 at 7:02pm
 
Marla wrote on Oct 11th, 2016 at 8:41am:
You god damn hippies, I swear. You have to assign your back up harddrive first with a letter like drive "D" so the OS system can read it as a secondary partition drive.

Learn how to do it using disk management in your device manager.


Have just tried cloning my hard drive (C:) with Macrium Reflect ... took about an hour ... and then when I opened the External drive (G:) that I had nominated as the Destination Drive - it said "Folder Empty".

But! There's more!

An (H:) drive has now appeared with the cloned copy of the (C:) drive ... and there's no indication of where this (H:) drive is.

One day, some day, somebody is going to design a Backup application that is a no-nonsense, no curve-balls, no bullshit, straight-forward, intuitive piece of software.

It shouldn't be a matter of quantum phuking physics to copy the system's hard drive onto an external hard drive. It should be utterly and absolutely a matter of straight-forward drop-dead easy transition, but it never is.

One day, some day, I'm going to do a 'Columbine' in Silicone Valley where the geeks and the nerds have an agreement NEVER to make something simple if it can be made complicated and 'Brain-Teaser' hard.   
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Reply #6 - Oct 16th, 2016 at 8:44pm
 
I do my system backups with Easeus backup.

I can then simply right-click on them and select 'Mount'.

And, done. It appears as an additional drive.

I can then view, copy, restore files etc., more or less at will.
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Reply #7 - Oct 17th, 2016 at 5:29am
 
Kat wrote on Oct 16th, 2016 at 8:44pm:
I do my system backups with Easeus backup.

I can then simply right-click on them and select 'Mount'.

And, done. It appears as an additional drive.

I can then view, copy, restore files etc., more or less at will.


It's now academic.

I switched off the PC last night while it was functioning perfectly. Have got up this morning to find that the PC has crashed during the night with it switched off ...  Shocked ...

Then went through a bewildering list of 'Repair Options' ... with every last one of them proving to be stiff bullshit 6 foot tall.

System Restore? Nope.

Macrium Repair Disc? Nope.

Windows 10 Automatic Repair? Nope.

Accessed the Cloned copy in the external hard drive. No joy.

Result? This PC that I bought only 3 weeks ago is back to the shop again for the third time. That's not a typo. For the third time in 3 weeks. He had to replace the USB drive because it wasn't functioning properly. Then he had to replace the CD/DVD burner because it wasn't working.

And now none of the Auto-Repair built-in software is working.

I'm not hard to please. I pay good cash for new PCs to take home with the expectation that they've been checked thoroughly at point of manufacture and point of sales.

The one silver-lining is that I don't get charged for the repairs to these 'brand new, off the shelf, 'another-happy-customer' pieces of electronic garbage.

(I'm using the second of my two backup computers).
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Reply #8 - Oct 17th, 2016 at 11:32pm
 
Herb,

You seem to have extraordinary problems. I have never had these problems.

Was you PC hand assembled by the shop to your spec or was it an off the shelf configuration?
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Reply #9 - Oct 18th, 2016 at 12:41pm
 
Super Nova wrote on Oct 17th, 2016 at 11:32pm:
Herb,

You seem to have extraordinary problems. I have never had these problems.

Was you PC hand assembled by the shop to your spec or was it an off the shelf configuration?


Buggered if I really know. All I can say is that in the 10 years that I've been buying PCs I have never once bought one that came in a box.

What pisses me off is that Computer Suppliers no longer give you a CD Installation disc as they used to, and which used to allow you to do your own repairs at home.

It's why I've been desperately but unsuccessfully trying to clone my Win 10 system and personal files onto my external hard drive.

I now suspect it was the FREE Macrium Reflect backup app that caused my computer to crash.

I'll try Easeus next time.

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Reply #10 - Oct 19th, 2016 at 6:44pm
 
I do my routine backup with the Free Aomei backupper Standard software. After done, I am able to find the backup under [Home] section. And of course, I can backup to a movable drive, it allows me to search it and restore it with no trouble.
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Reply #11 - Oct 19th, 2016 at 7:06pm
 
Carrmine wrote on Oct 19th, 2016 at 6:44pm:
I do my routine backup with the Free Aomei backupper Standard software. After done, I am able to find the backup under [Home] section. And of course, I can backup to a movable drive, it allows me to search it and restore it with no trouble.


Thank you, Carrmine. It's very kind of you to let me know this option is available to me.

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