Backup your hard drive with one-click and without extra software

Startup .BATThe process of backing up your hard drive can be automated without installing any extra software and without any fuss. We all know how important it is to backup your hard drive. I will show you how you can do it with one click (or none). First, open notepad and save the file with the name backup.bat. Next, type in the following line and resave:

xcopy c: e: /s /e

The above command will copy the entire contents of your C: drive to your E: drive. If any of your drive letters are different, change the line above to match your drive(s). For the lazy people, I have attached the file at the end of the post. Now whenever you click the “backup.bat” file, your entire hard drive will get backed up automatically.

Startup menu imageYou can automate the process completely (i.e., using no clicks) by right-clicking backup.bat and creating a shortcut. You can then drag the shortcut into your “Startup” folder in the start menu and whenever you start your computer it will backup your entire hard drive.

Scheduled task imageAlternatively, you can also go into Windows scheduled task and set backup.bat to run whenever you desire.

Microsoft’s website has more information about xcopy if you would like to learn more.

backup.bat

Trackbacks & Pings

Comments

  1. Backup your hard drive with one-click and without extra software
    December 18th, 2006 — Kyle

    When I tried to read the “trackbacks & pings”, they were all shown in Espanol. Do I need to “press 1 for English” ?

  2. Have you actually tried a restore of this?

Post a Comment


Your email is never published nor shared. Required fields are marked *



© 2006-2007 Maxim Software Corp.  All rights reserved.