My laptop crashed 2 weeks ago and I didn't have a backup and had to get a new windows 8, microsoft office, etc, etc

I need a good backup software that will backup my whole computer to my external hard drive.

I want a backup from where it is right now (pretty much plain windows 8 with some software installed)

Then I want it to backup regularly as I download music, games, make new files, etc.

Could someone point me towards a good software that can do this and maybe explain how to use it?

Try the hardware forum.

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I use sugarsync then sync my important folders online, also have 2 1tb's running in raid0 for my program files and important files. Just made a sym link for various folders to my hds, ie music downloads dox