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I want to back up the contents on my laptop hard drive

Whats the best program to do this and more importantly are there any free ones

Well I don`t know about "best" because that can be subjective but my personal favourite at the moment is Acronis TrueImage 9 which boasts a user friendly interface and supports incremental and differential backups. Norton Ghost 10 is similar but its restore CD is slower and costs more.

Others are:

- Paragon Exact Image which is cheap at £21 but there is no incremental backup support.
- Terabyte Unlimited at about £16 but it is a false economy as extra payment is required for more downloads for backups to work!

Windows 2000 and XP have a simple backup program built in too. It`s not an imaging backup and consequently does not support incremental or differential backups.

I don`t know about any other freeware backup programs because myself nor the company I work for trust them (not that they aren`t any good).