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I was surprised to discover that there was no easy solution to backing up an entire hard disk to another internal hard disk or to an external USB hard disk. I have two situations: 1) a laptop with an internal 25GB drive along with external USB 40GB hard drive. I wanted to use Ghost or something like it to make a complete copy of my internal drive (disk image?), but learned that Ghost does not support writing to external USB devices. 2) I have a desktop with two internal 20GB hard drives. I would like to make a complete copy of the master drive onto the second drive. Ghost could do it, but then I'd have to physically remove the drive from the machine, apparently due to it then having 2 operating systems.
My hope would be to be able to do this, and automate it so it can happen at a scheduled time, or at least make it very easy to do (1-click operation). Perhaps VBScript could work with a backup utitility to do this?
Are there any solutions anyone knows about where I can make a complete copy of the hard drives for these two situations?
I realize I can copy all the data, but I was hoping to copy everything so if is crashed, it would be easy to restore everything as it was. Thanks for any suggestions!
My hope would be to be able to do this, and automate it so it can happen at a scheduled time, or at least make it very easy to do (1-click operation). Perhaps VBScript could work with a backup utitility to do this?
Are there any solutions anyone knows about where I can make a complete copy of the hard drives for these two situations?
I realize I can copy all the data, but I was hoping to copy everything so if is crashed, it would be easy to restore everything as it was. Thanks for any suggestions!