Recent content by welchs101

i tried the clonezilla..........its not done but i see on the screen stuff like "Buffer I/O error on device sda1" Any ideas? I went to the clonezilla site but really no help at all.

Thanks for the info.

ok.....i must have tried the wrong link. thanks. but to my first set of questions......... Question1: I have an external hard drive that i use to backup data. I plan on using this to store the "cloned image of my hard drive". My hard drive has 131G of free space and ~ 18G of used space. My...

Frank, I tried the link you sent to download clonezilla.........it did not work. Can you send it again?

Frank, I had a few more questions about clonezilla. Not sure if this is the best place for it but since it was mentioned in this thread i will ask my questions here. I decided to try out clonezilla on an older Windwos XP system i have before trying it on my dads windows 7 computer...

thanks. Hopefully, one last question. Is there a down side to creating a partition larger than 100G? What if i created a partition say 500G? Whats the down side? I am installing the new OS for my dad onto a 1T drive. I was thinking of just splitting the drive in two.........any down...

thanks to all of you. Just a follow up question....hope its not too redundent. If i use clonezilla..........clonezilla is burned to a CD. If i have any problems boot up off of CD. Clonezilla will then ask me what info and where to put it? Is this right? The data on my exernal...

thanks for the info. This boot dvd you mentioned. How to create it and then how to use external drive ...........you would need to use both if the "image" is larger than what a dvd could store........right? Learning alot here.

Well, i definitely learned something in this thread. So to recap in my words (correct me if i get this wrong): I create a partition for my hard drive say 100G in size. I install my OS onto this partition and maybe a few applications. I run software like clonezilla or acronis to "image" my 100G...

Thanks all! After reading all the inputs i have lots of questions about "backing up" and restoring system. Lets say i had partitioned my hard drive as you guys suggested. I have a 100G partition for my system (c:\....drive) and i created two additional partitions each about 400G. Lets say...

This may be a dumb question........but why do i want to partition the hard drive like this? Why not just have one large drive? When i have partitioned the hard-drive in the past with say a 40G for the system and then another for the data........what ends up happening is i fill the 40G with...

I am not sure if i need to partition my hard drive.......should i? I have a 1T hard-drive and i am installing windows 7 64bit OS.