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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;jafo50, post: 5241391, member: 90633&quot;]FWIW, I&#039;m a big proponent of taking hard drive images. Data backup is fine in it&#039;s own right but a total hard drive crash comes with a whole mess of headaches that you might not anticipate.</p><p><br /></p><p>No access to the Operating System software to load onto the new hard drive.</p><p><br /></p><p>Limited or no access to the application software to load onto the new hard drive so you can restore your data from your backups.</p><p><br /></p><p>Hours and hours of time spent getting your system back up and running.</p><p><br /></p><p>I use a Western Digital External USB drive to take periodic images of my hard drive. If you purchase a Western Digital USB drive you can download Acronis software from Western Digital for free. Acronis lets you take a full image of your hard drive and save it to your Western Digital USB drive. You also need to make a bootable CD or USB Thumb Drive so you can boot Acronis externally if you need to restore your image. Acronis can create one for you which you will definitely need. Acronis checks to see if you are backing up to a Western Digital hard drive and it won&#039;t run if it&#039;s some other brand.</p><p><br /></p><p>Just an FYI: Those of you that have a warranty or a maintenance agreement with your PC&#039;s manufacturer doesn&#039;t necessarily mean that they will restore all of your data if they replace your hard drive or even some other component. The manufacturer will save your data if they can in a folder on the new hard drive and load a vanilla copy of the OS and the rest is up to you.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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