Free File Backup Program?

[Venetia]

I think one of my drives is about to go kaputsky, or I worry about it anyhow, and I need to back up about 4GB worth of shit onto my bigger, newer drive (though I still want to use the current one as the main, as it is much faster).

Whenever I use the Windows XP Backup Files thing in the Control Panel, it quits about halfway through feeding me some bullshit about there not being enough space (there totally is; there're like 300GB free on this thing and I'm only backing up 4). Also for some stupid reason I can't schedule tasks, the thing is broken, and I am way too lazy to go through the fucking permissions sets and everything to try and figure out the culprit.

Anyone know of a really good file backup program that's free, that can schedule itself to run when I'm away? I want to back up my files from one hard drive to the other. I don't want to do it online and I don't want to write portable media.

Alternatively, anyone know of one that's not free?

Obv I'd want the free one but if no one can think of a good free one then I'll take what I can get. I don't want to lose all my art & shit ;(

All the ones I've looked into were either trials or else they sucked nard or both

 

[Glitchfinder]

Try Macrium Reflect. It's free, and it lets you create a perfect image backup of any drive, which you can then mount as an extra, virtual hard drive as long as you have the software. I use it every time I reinstall my OS, to backup my entire system onto an external.

And, just so you know, I first hear about it through PC world, which has this monster list of software links and downloads, and it can be filtered by category, OS, and license type. (Free, paid, etc)

 

[Venetia]

I'll give it a try, thank you :D