fitzscoob

Lets say I want to make a mirror of my works pc, how would I go about this?

Do I buy an external harddrive and drag and drop everything onto there, or if I wanted to have access and use the programmes installed on my pc would I have to buy a laptop for arguements sake and copy everything across onto that?

My concern is that I assume if I just drag and drop files onto an external hard drive I wont be able to use them all unless the pc im using to access the hard drive with has the same programmes installed on them, is that correct or is it possible to mirror everything on the work pc including programmes onto the hard drive?

Ant

What OS is it? You don't drag and drop you need sovtwate to make a image of your pc, windows 7 has this feature built in

fitzscoob

My work pc is XP, would this be easier if I bought a new laptop with windows 7 and went about the transfer?

boxst

You can clone your hard drive with something like this: http://www.clonezilla.org/

As Windows loads things like chip settings, hardware drivers etc... you will have to play to get it to work on your new laptop unless it is the same model/make. In some instances when I have done this it was impossible to get Windows working on the new computer.

Steve

fitzscoob

ah ok thanks Steve.

I think my priority concern would be my emails, as my outlook has thousands of emails which refer to quotes and has my full customer address book on there. Assuming I had a computer with outlook on there would a transfer of this data be easier rather than cloning the entire system, as I could possibly afford to lose some of the additional files if need be.

Thanks

Scooby Soon!

upload emails to gmail account, job done