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OK, so. I have a laptop on its last legs. It's going to get replaced eventually, but until then I have a Western Digital portable hard drive (it advertises as 1 TB but only appears to have 930 GB capacity when I look via windows) I can use for backups. I would like to image the laptop to the portable hard drive. Should be easy enough, were the software WD includes with their hard drive not *absurdly* slow - and I don't think it does an actual image. Because I'm only doing this *once*, I'm looking for freeware. So, here's the specs. My system runs Windows 8.1 x64, but by the time I get a new computer, who knows, it might use Win 9. I'm backing up/imaging a drive that says it has 672 GB with 416 GB free.
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Nov 16, 2014 17:59
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I figured it was something like that, but knowing for certain is a good thing. Thanks for the info. In the event, what ended up happening: My old comp used Win 8.1. My backup computer, an Acer 5250, uses Win 7. So we wound up doing a file-by-file backup of C: on the old machine to the portable HD (took the better part of a day, ugh) and then transferring the stuff that was actually needed onto the Acer. Took forever. I then made very sure to use Macrium to save a backup of the Acer's hard drive onto the portable HD, since the thing had hordes of space left over.
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Nov 21, 2014 15:33
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