I want to back up my hard DRIVE to an external hard drive. I have 3 partitions on my PC. C is for windows and D and E are for music, movies and documents. I'm using Vista 64 BIT and my external hard drive doesn't come with any software. I've never done anything like this before so I would like something as simple as possible.

What's a good program for a noob?Well, what you could do is ZIP everything and then copy it to a harddrive....How would weekly updates work then? I'm thinking I would have to erase the zip files and start from scratch every week. I have 600 GB of stuff to backup so far.Oh.... LOL

That could be a problem then.

http://www.snapfiles.com/reviews/comodobackup/comodobackup.html - Comodo Backup

Should do the trick... Acronis True Image: http://www.acronis.com/ - not free, but the best

Free alternatives:
- DriveImage XML: http://www.runtime.org/driveimage-xml.htm
- SelfImage: http://www.excelcia.org/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=21
- Macrium Reflect: http://www.macrium.com/ReflectFree.asplink deleted Simple enough. Not free, but cheapYou're replying to a thread from a year and a half ago.It's spam.Indeed it is. Link Deleted.I HOPE you didn't USE the WOT rating to make your decision.
Oh, and don't forget the link in your quote.Got it, thanks.You have use Genie Backup Manager its is an impressively fast and full featured program which the capacity to back up the Windows Registry, Favourite, Outlook data and other system files in addition to normal email and user data.Quote from: joolifinaa on June 30, 2010, 01:51:33 AM

You have use Genie Backup Manager its is an impressively fast and full featured program which the capacity to back up the Windows Registry, Favourite, Outlook data and other system files in addition to normal email and user data.