Full backup from PC to HP Simple Save

[Gert-JandeWit]

Hello,

I've a HP Simple Save external 2TB drive and want to make a new full backup of one of  my laptops.

I cannot find the instruction in the manual. Can anyone help me to perform this full back up instead of incremental back up?

Thanks in advance!

[Huffer]

So you have an incremental backup? Are you using the HP backup and Restore or Windows native backup programs? I mean, there are several ways to do this. Personally I use the Windows system image backup which is a holdover from Windows 7 but creates an exact duplicate of the installation with all apps and settings, etc which can fairly easily be restored to a new hard drive. 

[Gert-JandeWit]

Thanks for yor reply.

I'm using the HP backup and restore software on the Simple Save drive. When I connect my PC for hte first time to that disk a full backup is made. After that connecting starts an incremental back up.

Now I want to make a fresh new backup of that PC again, but cannot find how to do that.

[Huffer · Accepted solution]

I would suggest you delete the old one. Do you want to have 2 backups on the disk? 

[Gert-JandeWit]

I've deleted the backup already, but when I plug the Simple Save it just returns the latest changes and doesn't start a full backup

[Huffer]

Then I would actually format the disk not just delete the old backups. Probably leaves some hidden files on the drive that record the backup state. And why is a new backup needed? An original backup with a series of new incremental backups is what you are always ultimately going to wind up with if you keep using the program.