Trying to backup windows 7 issue

[animewolfkid]

I have been trying to backup my dell laptop 

Inspiron 1545 

Pentium Dual Core

t4500 2.3ghz

64bit windows 7

 

1. I have an Iomege 1tb external hard drive where I have a bunch of file that are extremely important copied in folders. I need to backup this laptop because the hard drive is going to be going bad very soon. I get an error code 0x8078002A it seems to be an issue with windows 7 backup I have posted a question here (http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/120373-windows-backup-error-with-iomega-ego-1tb-drive/) that appears to be an issue with the backup on windows 7 and hard drives. As far as I have searched its just a issue with windows 7 backup program and I could not find a solution to this currently so I am looking for third party back up programs that I could use and backup the pc without ruining my files on the external in the process. Any of these would extremly helpful for future backups as well.

I also have a cloning kit from Corsair and a new harddrive coming in probably this tuesday, so another question would be would it be easier to just clone this hard drive to the new one and avoid the back up for now?

 

 

[ross06187]

1. download Hiren's BootCD 15.2

2. burn to disk. boot computer with disk to win xp

3. use Seagate DiscWizard to make full disk image to external/second hard drive