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partitioning back up hard drive
Name: Phil Strickhorn Date: June 21, 2009 at 04:25:17 Pacific OS: Windows Vista Home Premium 64-bit CPU/Ram: 3Gh/4Gb Subcategory: Configurations
Comment:
I have 4 desktop PCs on my home network. They are running Vista Home Premium 64-bit. I want to back-up each PC over the network to external hard drive. I have a 1Tb external hard drive. I want to partition the 1 Tb drive into 4 drives, approximatly 250 Gb each How do I set these drives, Active/Primary, Primary or Logical? I am going to use Acronis True Image Home 2009 software.
Name: CATraveler Date: June 21, 2009 at 07:56:51 Pacific
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Partitions are one approach. But why not just use 4 folders for the 4 PC's? This would give you maximum usage of the backup drive without having to repartition when the first partition gets full.
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Response Number 2
Name: Phil Strickhorn Date: June 21, 2009 at 09:37:19 Pacific
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Partitioning and disk space is not a concern. 2 of the PC's only have 100 Gb of application software on them. They still have 200 Gb of free space. The other 2 PC's have a minimum of application and data on them, all of my data is saved on a dedicated DATA disk in each PC. All of my PC DATA disks are saved to an external 500Mb hard drive.
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