Folks have their favorite methods.....it's whatever fits your needs.
I have two spare hd's.
I alternate the units.
Once a month I run a clone......gets everything.
It's fast......10 mins or so.
That fits my needs.
Yes.....I could lose 30 days of data but I can live with that.
The clone util is free......visit the hd maker's site.
I am at an impasse. I don't know what to do.
This is a two year old HP Pavilion deskside 6 gig 2.7 ghz Intel dual core that runs good.
After rebuilding this system from scratch in preparation for going wireless, everything works once again, IE9, new printer driver, 93 MS updates to a two year old system image.
Now I want to back it up. I've done all of my stuff to 2- DVD -R disks (data, pix, non MS programs).
I want to back up my operating system, the system image on D: and HP C:
I entered the backup routine from the "action" center and followed it's instructions and 5 hours later, it was stuck at 40% done with no messages. I aborted this, there has to be a better way.
I've been reading reviews of Seagate and Western Digital external hard drives and both of the are getting horrible reviews.
I think I have to go to an external hard drive, but I don't know which one to get.
Any ideas?

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