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Answer by Gaurav Shah for What is the easiest way to make a backup of an...

Do not take the backup of System Drive where Vista is installed (given that you have the recovery solution for Vista). Just take the backup of the other partitions somewhere on an external device if...

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Answer by mike for What is the easiest way to make a backup of an entire hard...

Where to begin... There is a whole host of alternatives: System commander, disk master, Acronis, driveimage XML, Linux tools like gparted, old favorites like Ghost, cloning the drive to one of those...

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Answer by henry chapman for What is the easiest way to make a backup of an...

Clonezilla is too complex and confusing. When Windows fails, the last thing you need is a complex restoration. Use PING, Macrium Reflect, or Paragon (all free for personal use). PING is superb because...

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Answer by stib for What is the easiest way to make a backup of an entire hard...

the parted magic liveCd comes with partimage which is a partition image maker. You can save any of your patitions off to an image file on a removable drive or to optical disc.

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Answer by jet for What is the easiest way to make a backup of an entire hard...

you can boot from Ubuntu CD run gparted and select hardrive (probably sda) check which partition is the last - dell utility partition or Windows Vista if for example Vista is the second one -...

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Answer by Keith Stokes for What is the easiest way to make a backup of an...

Use the original Dell restore disk if you want to go back. If the machine didn't come with it, it usually can be ordered from the manufacturer, although sometimes for a charge.

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Answer by Eric for What is the easiest way to make a backup of an entire hard...

Have you considered using a product like VirtualBox or other desktop virtualization? If you want to preserve your current configuration then this could be an option.

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Answer by Mike for What is the easiest way to make a backup of an entire hard...

While it is a good idea to image the disk and I would recommend Clonezilla as well, are there other requirements to using Ubuntu Desktop 10.10 besides just for Perl development? If you are looking to...

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Answer by djangofan for What is the easiest way to make a backup of an entire...

I would use Clonezilla. If you have a windows share available somewhere on your network then CLonezilla will let you backup the entire disk out to the SMB share... and you could restore from the same...

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What is the easiest way to make a backup of an entire hard disk

I got myself a dell laptop from the local computer store. Its a used machine with Windows Vista Home Basic on it. I want to load Ubuntu Desktop 10.10 though so I can do perl development. BUT I want to...

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