I need a Backup of 18 gig Win-XP Pro drive

I am going to work from home and my job requires that I have 10 gig free space on my Hard drive. I have only a 19 gig drive on my pc with 5 gig free. I need to install a 30 gig drive. I want to backup my entire drive encluding WIN-XP Pro. Any good freeware known to do this? Thanks,
Tony

 

I have had mixed luck with those Plodr. If both drives are not the same brand, tech support seems to end there. But certainly worth a shot. I have been using XXClone http://www.majorgeeks.com/XXCLONE_d5534.html With great results. Apparently no Vista support though.

The XXClone in my experience is simple, free, and works.

 

I have Acronis and it will do the job you require but it is not a freebie.

http://www.majorgeeks.com/Acronis_True_Image_d2236.html

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thanks for the response and info!

 

I was in a similar situation a while back; I used Acronis Migrate (not free, but good and maybe free trial period). In terms of backup startegery, I found it best to just copy (migrate) my old hard drive (c: drive) to the new, bigger hard disk drive (the bigger, the better), and then start using that as the new C: drive (primary). The old one still had all the files, so it served as the backup, and had something gone wrong, I could have just plugged back into the primary/master drive slot. However, nothing went wrong, so I put it aside and later bought $10-20 external USB HDD case from new-egg, so that I now have it as an external hard drive, and in particular, I've dedicated it to Acronis (True Image) backup duty....

 

Don't forget that a "30 gig" hard drive is, in reality, around 27-28 gig formatted. I would probably recommend a larger capacity Hard drive if you can manage it.

To get an actual hard drive capacity from an advertised capacity, multiple by .92. To make it simpler, take off 10% or multiply by .9. This won't be exact. It will be slightly more, but near enough for a quick calculation.

For example:-
60 gigs becomes 54 gigs, approx.
120 gigs = 108 gigs approx, etc. You get the idea.

Bazza

 

Thanks so much for the response! I got the problem solved.
Tony