I'm planning on buying a minimum of 3TB External harddrive, cleaning my pc out completely and starting over, for various reasons. But i could use some help of some fellow audiosexers on here for information.

I want to back-up every single file on all 4 internal harddrives (1.14TB + 391GB worth of stuff/crap) i've got in my system, i'm just not quite sure how? I've tried a cracked version of Acronis but it seemed kinda complex to me, a former friend of mine ran a back-up on my pc with the Acronis application that lasted 3 days but at 80% i messed up and disconnected the usb cable. Do you guys know wich software program will do the job automatically for me? I googled this and the built-in Windows system image got brought up alot in the search results, is this the proper backup program to use for saving the entire pc and every file on it?

I also wanted to ask a question about my specs:

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Are these good enough for optimal music making ? (Sorry for this noob question lol, if the specs provided in the picture aren't specific enough, please let me know)

I've bought a scarlett 2i2 soundcard, and a se2200aII condenser microphone 2 years ago. But it doesn't want to work for some reason, i haven't got it to work properly since the purchase. Sometimes the soundcard would receive the microphone signal mysteriously, happened like 3 or 4 times. And then i just never got it to work, it would never pick the signal up. But i've tested the soundcard along with the microphone at other people's computers and it worked perfectly. So the source of this problem probably comes from the harddrives of my computer, it's infected aswell, because of some adware and viruses, i need to get it cleaned bad lol its got content and 2 harddrives of my previous computers in it aswell, probably over 6 or 8 years old.


Thank you alot guys

 

easiest way, buy a new HDD for the computer and then get an external HDD caddy so you can plug in your old drives if you need to pull any data from them. Programs like Acronis when making back ups compress the data into a special rar type file and you need to use the software to reload the whole thing, and as you are aware trying to create a backup takes ages and also reloading the backup. your pc specs are fine

 

Thank you alot for your effort SirSillySausage, i appreciate it. I've done some research on the HDD caddy thing, but i've only seen references to laptops regarding hdd caddy's. These caddy's aren't majorly built for pc's am i right? Or that's probably the reason you told me to get an "external" one, because they are used with an USB plug?

 

that is correct external USB caddies (I have one and access my old HDDs), if you have access to USB3 on you motherboard, use that, a lot faster than USB2

 

Thank you sir silly , i'm gonna do some research

 

your computer specs are fine, i would always upgrade if possible.....you should do fine though depending on how big the software is you use...more is better 16gb ram ....store all your bigger stuff on sdd and generic files on hdd to keep costs down...

 

Thank you TheA, i'm gonna see what i can do. currently using FL 32 bit..i have 64bit aswell but it's kinda bugged.

I also found out that i have an Hotswap port on the front of my pc