Question Need advice copy/ghost/backup a hard drive.

[gargus]

Friend got me a ssd that has tons of emulators and games and everything pre configured with a interface and everything. It's really cool.

What I want to do is make an exact copy of it to backup Incase something goes wrong with this one. I am removing duplicate games on it, adding in new ones but my knowledge is very limited. I'd hate to screw something up and loose it all or have the drive die on me so I want to make a copy of it.

I hadn't done stuff like this since well like Norton ghost was a thing and you had to do it through dos. So I am way behind the times. So any advice will be appreciated.

The drive doesn't have windows on it. If you boot off the drive it uses like batocera or something like that and it just goes into the game interface.

My PC id be making the backup on has windows 11.

Thanks for any suggestions

 

[Lafong]

Friend got me a ssd that has tons of emulators and games and everything pre configured with a interface and everything. It's really cool.

What I want to do is make an exact copy of it to backup Incase something goes wrong with this one. I am removing duplicate games on it, adding in new ones but my knowledge is very limited. I'd hate to screw something up and loose it all or have the drive die on me so I want to make a copy of it.

I hadn't done stuff like this since well like Norton ghost was a thing and you had to do it through dos. So I am way behind the times. So any advice will be appreciated.

The drive doesn't have windows on it. If you boot off the drive it uses like batocera or something like that and it just goes into the game interface.

My PC id be making the backup on has windows 11.

Thanks for any suggestions

Make a full image of all partitions on the drive using Macrium Reflect Free Edition. Restore that image if you ever get in a jam.

It'll be one big file, probably dozens of GB in size.

Lower left side at the link below:

Macrium Reflect | Free 30-Day Trial

Macrium Reflect - Incredibly powerful software that allows you to create and schedule effective backups

www.macrium.com

 

[FAhentai]

Friend got me a ssd that has tons of emulators and games and everything pre configured with a interface and everything. It's really cool.

What I want to do is make an exact copy of it to backup Incase something goes wrong with this one. I am removing duplicate games on it, adding in new ones but my knowledge is very limited. I'd hate to screw something up and loose it all or have the drive die on me so I want to make a copy of it.

I hadn't done stuff like this since well like Norton ghost was a thing and you had to do it through dos. So I am way behind the times. So any advice will be appreciated.

The drive doesn't have windows on it. If you boot off the drive it uses like batocera or something like that and it just goes into the game interface.

My PC id be making the backup on has windows 11.

Thanks for any suggestions

Try this one

AOMEI Partition Assistant | Partition Manager Software for Windows PC and Server

As alternative to partition magic software, AOMEI Partition Assistant is an easy partition manager and complete hard disk management tool for Windows 11/10/8.1/8/7/Vista/XP and Server 2003/2008/2012/2016/2019.

www.diskpart.com

I have tried to move files from one disk to another so many times with this softwarem, works fine. The only failure is when I try to migrate windows 10 from one SSD to another.
I have tried many of them, including this one, and WD's software, it turns out, only Samsung's data migration software works

 

[gargus]

Thanks for the replies. I'll check them out when i get home from work