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Thread ID: 125343	2012-06-21 10:21:00	Best method for external USB backup?	adslgeek (14687)	Press F1

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1283261	2012-06-25 00:42:00	I would like to confirm that Active@Disk Image may still be the best reliable (albeit paid for) solution? I am confused though as on their website they say personal users can have 3x copies/uses by the one owner, yet elsewhere only one copy per licence. .... Try Maxblast5 from Seagate. Make a bootable CD & boot from it. Its very good, can make disk images & is free. Its a cut down version of Acronis If it complains that you dont have a Seagate drive, at that message hit 'Alt T, Alt O' I think Active@ lets you burn a Boot CD to do you imgaing from. You could possibly use that boot CD on any PC (??) Of course with anything like this, you want to test it. Sometimes you run into issues with recovery partitions & OEM bootloaders that run that recovery partition	1101 (13337)
1283262	2012-06-25 01:03:00	Active@ is very good it makes a boot CD with networking and yes you can install it on 3 computers I have it on 2 and mostly use the boot CD for any other computer I need to use. It's quick and just works. And active@ is one of the few around that does the separate WIN7 boot partition which a lot of free ones do not	gary67 (56)
1283263	2012-06-25 05:45:00	Thanks 1101 & gary67 for the good advice. This issue of win7 partitions seems to be the consistent fly in ointment and I can see testing will be the go. Do you think I am correct in looking on this imaging as a seperate (but equally important) matter to a more regular external USB backup regime as opposed to the many all encompassing backup methods that always seem to fail me?	PeteS (12500)
1283264	2012-08-02 17:44:00	@MAX SyncUp new but great backup soft in point of features and a price. :banana It suits me entirely. I do backup to ex hdd and to cloud.	MichaelC (16819)
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