woolyhead Posted January 28, 2017 Share Posted January 28, 2017 My PC has 80GB of used space on it. How many ordinary capacity ones, not blu ray discs would it need to back it up? . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slh73 Posted January 28, 2017 Share Posted January 28, 2017 A blank single layer dvd holds 4.7gb. Divide 80 by 4.7, Bobs your uncle Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woolyhead Posted January 28, 2017 Author Share Posted January 28, 2017 (edited) Thanks slh73. Wow that's a lot of discs, nearly 17. So if I want to make a bootable copy of my entire system and I put the first disc in and ask for the image to be made, would the system fill the disc and then ask me to put in the second disc and so on for all 17 discs? How many discs would it take to make a recovery disc and what goes on a recovery disc, the OS? my files? And why is the activation code needed? I mean what does it use this code for? Edited January 28, 2017 by woolyhead Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swarfendor437 Posted January 28, 2017 Share Posted January 28, 2017 AFAIK when you create an image using the built in Windows imaging software it will want to look for either enough space on your existing hard drive or another drive/external drive. You are also going to be looking at having to purchase some imaging software and it may or may not work - there can be a risk of faulty media (DVD's) and broken links etc - much simpler to use an external hard drive and use something like redobackup from http://redobackup.org which is free or use Macrium Reflect - also free. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woolyhead Posted January 29, 2017 Author Share Posted January 29, 2017 Thanks again swarfendor43. I was going to use Macrium free but now I've read redobackup.org I'm not sure which to use. I noticed one thing that's been bothering me, the recovered system is a mini system, not a full system. Is that how they get it all on to only 4 discs? Knowing that's just for my education because I'm planning to use an external HD not a bunch of discs. But even with this ext. HD apparently I will need one disc. What disc is that, what's it for and what's on it? Sorry if you've already told me before but it's a lot for me to take in. ---------- Post added 29-01-2017 at 19:51 ---------- love2print has answered it for me. What's on the recovery disc is mainly the OS, not all the other stuff. That explains it for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swarfendor437 Posted February 2, 2017 Share Posted February 2, 2017 A lot of people on here recommend macrium reflect so go with that. Usually you should be able to create a 'recovery' CD/DVD of the application to boot from so that it can search for the image you created. All the steps you need to know on how to use macrium reflect here - it looks like it does exactly the same job as Acronis but at no cost: http://www.techradar.com/how-to/computing/how-to-use-macrium-reflect-free-to-backup-your-pc-1319885 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peak4 Posted February 3, 2017 Share Posted February 3, 2017 Any reason for not using a USB stick instead of DVDs e.g. https://www.mymemory.co.uk/USB-Flash-Drives/Integral/Integral-128GB-Evo-USB-Flash-Drive Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted February 3, 2017 Share Posted February 3, 2017 Just get external HDD. You don't want a hassle with 17-20 DVD's Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swarfendor437 Posted February 3, 2017 Share Posted February 3, 2017 Any reason for not using a USB stick instead of DVDs e.g. https://www.mymemory.co.uk/USB-Flash-Drives/Integral/Integral-128GB-Evo-USB-Flash-Drive I bought a 16 Gb Play.com version of a memory stick looking very similar to that - after a while the internal mechanism becomes loose from the casing. I much prefer a solid Hard Drive to reliance on a Memory Stick that could get easily lost or damaged. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
apelike Posted February 3, 2017 Share Posted February 3, 2017 Any reason for not using a USB stick instead of DVDs e.g. https://www.mymemory.co.uk/USB-Flash-Drives/Integral/Integral-128GB-Evo-USB-Flash-Drive They can easily get corrupted and in the case of one of mine unreadable and unwriteable. It states it needs formatting and when I try to do that it then says its write protected and asks to unlock it when there is no lock. No substitute for a normal hard drive as they last. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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