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cloning

by markkk1965 Jun 21, 2008 12:17AM PDT

i want to make a backup of my entire hardrive,i have bought a external hardrive and what i want to do is while my pc is in great working order with all my different programs added to it etc i want to be able to should my hardive go down or become corrupt i then want to use my external hardrive to boot up with so that i can change or restore my c/drive any help and advise welcome. is there any free programs out there to do this or do i need to buy 1 and which 1 is best.

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