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I am planning to do a full system backup (complete with system image) with a Toshiba 500 gig external hard drive that I recently purchased from Amazon. I currently have 464.86 gigs of free space available on this device (my external hard drive came with NTI EZ Backup utility). How much space will I need to create a full backup on this device? Or should I just backup individual files/folders and create the system image on a separate drive?
Evan
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Hi Evan,
It depends on the files and folders that you have on the hard drive.
For Example: If you have 200 GB of worth data in the C drive then to perform a system image you would need minimum of 200 GB of space in the external drive to perform a system image.
To know more about system image in Windows 7, refer the link
What backup settings should I use to maximize my disk space?
Hope this information helps.
