MrMaxwell

I want to back up my boot drive so that I can easily restore the windows installation with all of the programs still installed and everything

Can I simply back up everything from the root folder of C:\ ?? With all of the "don't hide files" and "show system and protected os files" ... ??

Then all I'd have to do is format a new drive, make it bootable, and copy the files over.. right???


C = 32gb Corsair Force 3 SSD
D = 500gb 7200 3.5" internal
G = 500gb usb3 flex external

I mirror D and G (not with raid) so essentially G is backup of D
I want to make 32gb partitions on both drives to back C up to

Is there any reason to use third party software for partitioning the disks?? Is windows 7 64bit disk manager okay? Is it important to fully format the drives before partitioning?


Thank you computer gurus of gfy