How do i do this with ATIH 2013 ???
I have Windows 7 Home Premium x64 in my laptop.
I am thinking of upgrading to Windows 8 Pro. I want to backup my current Windows 7 system so that incase something goes wrong while upgrading or after upgrading....then I can switch back to my Windows 7 system. My laptop hdd size is 320 gb.
I have a Transcend Storejet 500gb external hdd which I cannot open from its enclosure (for warranty reasons) and i don't have any spare hdd..... so I won't be able to remove the hdd from its enclosure and put it in my laptop.
Can I make a hdd clone of my current system to my external hdd. Will I be able to restore (clone) my laptop hdd back from the external hdd using usb port itself since I cannot remove the external hdd from its enclosure ?
Is there any other method to do this ?
Greatly appreciate your time and help.
Warm regards
striker
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Striker Rage wrote:I have Windows 7 Home Premium x64 in my laptop.I am thinking of upgrading to Windows 8 Pro. I want to backup my current Windows 7 system so that incase something goes wrong while upgrading or after upgrading....then I can switch back to my Windows 7 system. My laptop hdd size is 320 gb.
I have a Transcend Storejet 500gb external hdd which I cannot open from its enclosure (for warranty reasons) and i don't have any spare hdd..... so I won't be able to remove the hdd from its enclosure and put it in my laptop.
Can I make a hdd clone of my current system to my external hdd. Will I be able to restore (clone) my laptop hdd back from the external hdd using usb port itself since I cannot remove the external hdd from its enclosure ?
Is there any other method to do this ?
Greatly appreciate your time and help.
Warm regards
striker
Let me use my own experience to help you. I agree that Clone is not the best solution in this case. I have a dual drive system, where my OS drive is an SSD and my program / data drive is a 7200 rpm HDD. I backed up Windows 7 configuration, both drives, using 2013, to an external HDD. I installed Win 8 as an upgrade the first time and clean the second. In both cases, I did something that caused the machine to become unbootable (my own fault). So I booted into the 2013 recovery and just restored the C drive with Win 7 (didn't do the D, because the data was already there and configured to Win 7. Rebooted when done and had a fully functional Windows 7 system again. Everything worked as it should. Even now, when I am running Windows 8, I can go back and forth between both Win 7 and 8 by just recovering my C drive. Do a backup...the recovery is pretty easy!
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