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Is there any way to back up an entire hard drive? You know - to like an external hard drive or something. I want to install another OS on my secondary laptop and if I mess it up, I can't be assed to spend another 10 hours rearranging everything on my hard drive how I want it - I just wanna copy that state the HDD is in back onto my laptop. >>


It's only 40GB capacity so it's not like totally gargantuan

Yes. Look up clonezilla.
I'm unsure if it'll clone onto an external drive, but if you can pop your laptop drive into a desktop and have a spare 40gb drive, it'll work.

Or you could just go into your C drive and manually move all the folders inside. That'll ensure you get all your files and stuff, but obviously you can't boot off of the drive because your registry and stuff won't be intact. It's the easiest way to do it though, and you still get all your stuff.