data backup

I am trying to backup to an external hard drive, 120gb. The backup starts fast and then hangs at 57%. I have let it run for several hours and still only 57%. I have a new hp p6350z pavilion computer with a 454 gb with 420 gb free. The external hard drive has been reformatted prior to attempting...

Hi everyone I have a problem with windows 7. I downloaded a microsoft update as I have it on automatic and it took ages to download. Shortly after my vaio crashed and I had to shutdown by holding the power button. It then gave me the option of starting repair or normally. If i select repair it...

Hello guys, new here with a great hope to get help for a brand new problem I’ve never been facing before which is driving me crazy for many hours ‘till this very moment am writing down these words. I’m running a single Windows 7 Ultimate x86 OS on my laptop and it used to work very well ‘till...

Here's the story. I had Windows XP on my original 500GB disk in my computer. We will call this DISK XP. I bought a new 1TB drive and bought Windows 7 64bit to put on it. Call this one DISK W7. I just recently moved all my old files from DISK XP to DISK W7 so I decided I wanted to format DISK...

ok here is what id like to try if it will work im running 64 bit ultimate what i want to do reinstall windows on a 160gig hd leaving the file system intact on the 1 TB drive and erase the old install of windows and everything still work another words can i reinstall to a diff drive and still...

Hi, I have a backup server which is running windows 2000 and it needs full access (or access to all the files I need backed up) to my windows 7 pcs. I am lost. Can anyone help me? Thanks, Rusty

So after some days of playing around with Windows 7 I feel that it would be worth while building my new systems on Windows 7 rather than XP pro again. So a little advice on which way to go would be a great help please. Now I am a software developer that uses a lot of 32bit applications...

Hi. I have an evaluation version of W7Pro on my server, which has expired. The system comprises of a single 100GB HD, which has the OS installed, and 2 x 500GB SPANNED IDE HD's holding data. I need to revert back to XP Pro while keeping the SPANNED disks intact - is this possible? I...

Hi! I need to do a clean install of Windows 7 Ultimate, again. (if you recall my last post, you know why :) ) I'm going to wipe the drive and reformat and then reinstall Windows 7. My problem is that I have some games installed which have rather large updates that I had to DL (took an hour...

I have recently installed W7 Pro 64-bit but I'm still playing around with it. I understand that M$ recommends 20 GB for x64. I would like to give it a generous amount of room to work, but I don't want to go overboard. I have 3.5 GB of system memory but plan to upgrade to up to 4 or 6, so I...

I had finally gotten windows 7 and decided to install it on my pc, so i bought some blank dvds and backed up all my data that is important to me. So i went through the normal installation process. After it formatted my hard drive it went onto expanding files at like 7% (21 on the next try)...

Section 1: Performing a Bare-Metal Backup Hello, this is Mike from Windows 7 Forums. In this video, I'm going to show you how to create a Paragon backup and restore image of a hard drive, using bare-metal backup and restore. What is a Bare-Metal Backup/Restore and Why Is it Useful? Bare-metal...

Guys, I've recently changed my home computer over from WinXP to Win7. On my WinXP system, I had a permanently mapped drive to my "My Documents" directory on my work laptop (WinXP Pro). Once I had plugged my laptop into my home network (and powered it up of course), all I would need to do on my...

Let me start by saying, that I do indeed love Windows 7. Even with less than 1gb of RAM, it performs MUCH better than Vista, and looks/feels very nice. Furthermore I've noted the stabilty seems even better than XP, HOWEVER: Recently I've ran into a problem of Video drivers. There is and will...

I was going to install Win7 Premium on an Acer T180 desktop.My 140 gb hdd is partitioned C and D of 70 gbs each.I was going to install Win7 on the D drive but I was afraid it might mess up my E recovery hidden partition.Does this sound like a good plan?I wish I had a way I could burn off my...

I've got a fair amount of computer savvy. But when I migrated to 7 last month I guess all that was useless. Anyway, I'm running a newer HP with enough power to handle anything, so far. I installed 7 and then put my apps on and about a week later upon rebooting I get the message that I can't...

Hello all, I just upgraded to W7 tonight and I have a question (surprise...). I backed up all my files onto my other hard drives, and made a little list of all the programs i might need to istall because I wanted to to a clean install. To be honest, I don't remember which way I upgraded it...

Well, I have stepped in it this time and boy could I use some help. Setup an XP/7 dual boot on two partitions on same drive. All good. Removed XP boot entry with easybcd. All good. Set 7 partition to Active. All good. Booting to 7 worked fine with the old XP partition still on the disk...

When starting the installation it says that i Cannot upgrade from Windows Vista Home and will need to install windows 7 on my own. How would i go about making sure that i do not lose all of my files and programs such as all of the Microsoft Office stuff and any games or other things i have...

I have 3 drives - 1 with my previous XP on it, 1 with my new WIn 7 Pro and the 3rd with backup data. I'm trying (vainly) to copy the likes of Stationery and Building Blocks etc from my Office on XP over to my Office on Win 7 but it keeps telling me I need permission from the "owner" to do this...