How to Backup & Restore Your Hard Drive for FREE with PING - PartImage Is Not Ghost

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In this episode of MindPower, Bryce explains gives simple instructions for how to back up and restore your hard disc using a freeware program called PING. Download PING from the software page of my web site at: http://www.ahearttowitness.com/software.php#disk If you like my videos, please subscribe! http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=mindpower009 MindPower T-Shirts: http://newdepthmedia.spreadshirt.com Please "Like" MindPower009 on Facebook! http://facebook.com/mindpower009 Follow me on: Pinterest: http://pinterest.com/brobryce/ Facebook: http://facebook.com/brobryce Twitter: http://twitter.com/brobryce LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/brobryce Google+: http://gplus.to/brobryce Instagram: http://followgram.me/brobryce2009/ Skype: skype:brobryce My Other YouTube Channels: MindPower009 (Tutorials): http://goo.gl/ZkhRj NewDepthMedia (Free Stock Footage): http://goo.gl/pUDox BroBryceGardens (Gardening): http://goo.gl/9AUFE BroBryceCooks (Man Cookin'!) http://youtube.com/user/brobrycecooks BroBryce2009 (Random): http://goo.gl/4r1FG BroBryceCooks (Man Cookin'!) http://youtube.com/brobrycecooks BestTipsAndReviews (Household Tips & Reviews): http://goo.gl/Zuxo8 BroBryceVlogs (Vlogs, duh!): http://goo.gl/LvQtr BroBryceAndroid (SmartPhone Stuff): http://goo.gl/BiWPu BroBryceFX (Special Effects): http://goo.gl/BjPWq PDXCarChic (My Wife, Julie): http://youtube.com/user/pdxcarchic Check out MindPower World! http://mindpower.wonderhowto.com/ Hire me for your project! http://newdepthmedia.com Theme Music: "Soulplug" by KillaHertz Used with permission by way of Creative Commons http://www.audiofarm.org/audiofiles/637-killahertz-soulplug Background Music: "Low Flight" by Stereofloat Used with permission by way of Creative Commons http://www.audiofarm.org/audiofiles/73-stereofloat-low-flight This video by Bryce L. Tomlinson is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License. Based on a work at www.ahearttowitness.com. Permissions beyond the scope of this license may be available at http://www.ahearttowitness.com/creativecommons.php Bryce L. Tomlinson is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to Amazon.com

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  1. You did not mention this was for XP until near the end of the video, does this work with 7.
  2. Sorry it took me so long to reply. Some of my emails slip through the cracks. Thanks for the great feedback. I will try to keep it up! :)
  3. I came across your youtube(s), looking for assistance in dealing with a couple of my HD's. Your videos are well done brother, Bryce. Thank you so much for the valuable information!
  4. I disagree. There's really no way I could have run the restore stuff without overwriting my whole OS, just the way it appears in this video, so it kinda doesn't matter whether I changed something or not, especially since if I was faking it, I could have just changed whatever it was back. But I didn't. I've been using this for several years, and some of my clients have been trusting it for a long time as well.
  5. I'm glad you were luckier than me. But it is not a matter of PING being not for everyone. It is a matter of serious flaws in it. I suppose it stores the destination in the backup image, so it doesn't ask for a destination, just go on with overwriting the source disk, because it THINKS it is the right one. Interesting thing is, I haven't even changed the hardware configuration between making backup and restoring it. It is the first time something like this happened to me, and I'm not a noob;)
  6. Sorry you feel that way. I've been using PING for years and it's worked great for my XP machine, and several others that I've worked on over the years. Literally saved me months of accumulated work. But I understand it's not for everyone.
  7. You probably won't get any answer. Registration for new users is closed and forums are dead for over a year.
  8. To hell with this. Just recently PING (which should stand for: PING is not good) screwed my disks completely while restoring backup made year ago. And when I'm saying "disks" I mean both target and source disk. This software should be flagged as malware, because it contains dangerous errors that lead to a disaster.Do you know any other backup software that messes the source drive? It looks as if it tried to restore to both drives at once. Browse the PING forums and you'll find out I'm not alone.
  9. Hmm. Well I wonder if you maybe accidentally deselected the boot record backup? Just curious. I used @ctive KillDisk to wipe a laptop, then took an image from another identical laptop and recovered it on the wiped one, so this one has my head scratching.
  10. Actually it does image the MBR, Thanks for watching!
  11. @Whyrendog dunno, that seems like a question for the PING forums (on the PING site)
  12. @glizda360 Yeah I love PING still to this day... it's saved me so many heartaches!
  13. Anybody know how to add USB 3.0 support? Is there a special build or something? On my new laptop, it wont even read a USB 2.0 drive unless it's in a USB 2.0 port. Takes forever to backup/restore now. Old laptop had eSata, was super fast.
  14. after i maked a image from my windows harddrive. i get the following when backup is complete: 2411 rc.ping %time% - File details stored (and counting) is this ok? just be patient or does this mean to unmount the cd rom? thanks in advance
  15. @Agnelum1 Usually if you just wait it will fix the errors and boot. There's always errors, then it emulates the hardware or whatever. NEVER read the text lol. Only problem I have had in years and I've done tons of backups on different PCs and laptops for a lot of people is that my newest laptop wont work on USB 3.0. Kind of sucks since I don't have eSATA anymore. But USB 3.0 is faster but it'd be nice if they would add support for the newer ASUS laptop boards. G73JW-XA1 is my laptop.
  16. @bfr0d Thanks for the info. I don't think I left anything out. But I appreciate your input.
  17. @Agnelum1 sounds like maybe you have an older system that might've required a custom filesystem handler to detect a larger capacity hard drive. This is usually done with a BIOS patch on the bootblock of the hard disk. I worked on a system like this once, and PING couldn't read the hard drive. So there are those exceptions sometimes.
  18. @MindPower009 The back up was okay and I could restor the system with Ping, the firt time did a get some size problems with the HD, but after I re-formated my HD with gparted could I without problems restore my full system.
  19. @kennylex Did you get everything fixed back up?
  20. @EACTV did you watch the video? The answer is there.