If you are looking to make complete backup of your hard drive, this article should help you.

Manual Backup on Removable Media – The most popular and easiest way to backup your hard is creating a backup on removable media like DVD/ CD, USB Drive, External Hard disk etc. You can make regular or weekly backup of all important data as per your requirement. This is the easiest way as you can simply backup all data manually just by doing copy/ paste.

Backup Application – You can use backup applications like SyncBack freeware version to backup all your data accordingly to external hard disk. You can setup different folders with SyncBack and backup your current user profile, important directories etc. SyncBack also comes with schedule backup and notification email on failure. There are lots of cheap and freeware applications like SyncBack and you can collect those by Googling.

Hard drive cloning – You can backup the complete hard drive or a particular partition by creating an image with application like Acronis® True Image. This particular application comes with great features as follows.

• One-click protection that lets you to decide what, where and when to make the backup. Next the backup process starts in just a single click.
• It supports full text search within the archive with Windows file search or Google desktop search.
• You can create multiple copies of backup and store them on USB drive, external hard disk or network drive.
• Compressed ZIP format available for backup including the Acronis’s TIB compression format.
• You can exclude unnecessary files and folders while backup to save space.

Windows Inbuilt Backup System – You can also backup your hard disk using the Windows inbuilt backup system. Go to Start Menu -> Programs -> Accessories -> System Tools and click Backup. It allows you to make a complete backup of a particular partition or simply by specific folders. You can also automate the process using the inbuilt Schedule Jobs option. Additionally this utility also comes with a feature to backup Bootfiles, COM+ Class Registry and System Registry.

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