1TB drive partitions

[stax]

Hi,

I recently partitoned a 1 terrabyte drive and I was wondering if there is anything safety measures that i can take to keep a back up copy of the drives partition structure..... i dont really know the correct terminology here or even if such a thing exists but I thinking that it will be something like a jpeg / snap shot of the partition table.. something like that? then if anything goes wrong with the partitions I can restore the drive for it?

Thanks
Shaun

 

[Lemon13]

u have to save the mbr. try this

http://www.mbrwizard.com/

 

[wahnula]

stax,

If anything goes wrong with the drive, what becomes of your data? I would be worried more about that than the partition structure, which can always be rebuilt. I've been partitioning drives for years and never had one "lose" its partition info, it just lost its life.

As drives get bigger, a good backup plan is even more important, because of the density of data. Get one/a pair of drives that mimic your partition structure if possible. I worry about the data, not the OS & apps.

For example, I have (2) 320GB drives in RAID 1 with roughly a 250GB partition for data. I pair that with an external 250GB drive and run regular backups.

Tony

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[stax]

Thanks Lemon13 I will try that

Thanks Tony - I have it all backed up but on 4 seperate drives so it would be a pain to copy back over