Making the move to Vista need back up program

Discussion in 'Software' started by buggabear, Dec 30, 2008.

  1. buggabear

    buggabear MajorGeek

    Good Morning or Afternoon
    I'm finally making the move to Vista, I was able to get Vista Ultimate for free and decided not to let it go to waste. The computer I'm installing it on is a HP Pavallion a450n it has xp home , 3 ghz processor 2 gig ram 160 gig hd 90 gigs free. After all of that my question is back up software.
    I'm very familiar with xp and xp pro however I need a program that in case Vista Ultimate creates a problem I can go back to xp. The back up software that came with this pc 3 years ago gave me the option to back it up at that time which I did (HP software gives one time back up) however over the years I've added tons of programs and data which I would need to retrieve if this upgrade goes bad.

    Any recommendations, free is always great but sometimes you get what you pay for, so I'm willing to pay for a good software program. I would also prefer one that lets you back it up to an external drive (had a couple bad experiences with cd's and dvds over the years.)

    Thanks

    Buggabear :cool
     
    buggabear, Dec 30, 2008
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  2. DavidGP

    DavidGP MajorGeeks Forum Administrator - Grand Pooh-Bah Staff Member

    Hi Buggabear

    Personally I would go with MarkTs recomendation of Acronis True Image 2009 as its my main backup app and I use it with Vista, works great and can set various scheduled backups be that a full drive image to just Documents or specific folders of your choice. Full Image backup is best as even with that you can open up the resulting image file and pull out any files without the need to actually recover the full image unless needed.
     
    DavidGP, Dec 30, 2008
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  3. buggabear

    buggabear MajorGeek

    I just read through Acronis and this seems like the one I'm going to go with. I'm still through the other link just to make sure. I appreciate the fast response I should have vista up and running sometime today. I don't for see any complications but if so I'll be back.
     
    buggabear, Dec 30, 2008
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  4. DavidGP

    DavidGP MajorGeeks Forum Administrator - Grand Pooh-Bah Staff Member

    Hi

    Would give the manual to True Image a read, so that you can get the gist of how it works, but myself and others here use it so can assist you. If you do go with that option then 1st job is to make the Acronis Bootable Rescure CD, its a superb tool, not only do you boot to it and its a lite version of the True Image software so that you can recover your PC.

    Tip with any backup application is not to store the backup of your main C: or OS drive or any backups on the main hard drive, not even in a partition, always should be preferably on a 2nd HD, be that internal or external as well as on a DVD (will take a few DVDs)

    From Marks listing of the backup apps listed on MGs DriveimageXML is another to try, not as easy or intuative as Acronis but its FREE.
     
    DavidGP, Dec 30, 2008
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