Free Backup Software on Windows 7 PC with 4TB external USB HD

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Tim Phillips

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If you used Cobian in the past, if Windows 7 OS/HD crashes completely, can you restore a complete OS image of the hard drive directly from the backup or I have to install Win7 first and restore files and folders?

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Does Cobian do incremental backup?
Also does it erase older data (as the hard drive space become full) to write the new data?

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Let me clarify. I like what native windows backup program does - incremental backup of files and HD image which can be used when your HD crashes. The only limitation with it is the fact that I can not use HD bigger than 2TB.

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I will try Paragon to see how it is.

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Can I do this?
If I get a 4TB Ext. USB HD, I will create two partitions in DiskMgmt.msc and label them F: (2TB) and G: (2TB) drives. Then in Windows Backup program, can I tell it to backup to F: drive which is 2TB partition? If that is going to work, then I can use G: drive for something else.
However usually when you select the hard drive as backup destination, Windows seems to take over the entire drive, erasing the drive letter.

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"windows image based backup tool won't work" --> That is what I was afraid of.

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