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    Help with One Key Backup

    Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by jin15, Aug 31, 2009.

  1. jin15

    jin15 Newbie

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    First off long time reader first time poster.

    So I purchased the G550 for my sister and after doing a clean install, friend made me realize that i should have left one key recovery as if something ever happened it is easy to recover the data as sister is not technical. So i remember on the driver download it also has one key software, my question is how good is it compared to other products and how long of a process is the backup and recovery?

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    Vista Home Premium can not create full pc backup so will have to use third party software.
    What programs do you use i only know of norton ghost and arconois true image? Any good free ones out there?
    Also would like ability to store backup on 2nd partition and restore from there instead of burning dvds.

    PS: More i think about it more it seems to be in wrong section. please move it to software section.

    Thanks
     
    jin15, Aug 31, 2009
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  2. ortegaluis

    ortegaluis Notebook Consultant

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    OneKey Recovery is good, but not great. You can restore a backup image if the partitions remain unchanged [not resized]. It cannot restore Windows to a clean hard drive. You must first create a partition of the correct size.

    You can give Easeus Todo Backup a try. I haven't made time to test it, but it's free and worth a shot.
     
    ortegaluis, Sep 1, 2009
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