Completely Copying the WinXP Partition After Clean Install...

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Will Mercer

I'm going on the road with my desktop in a few weeks and the health of
my PC will be absolutely critical to my work.

I have my o/s (WinXP) on its own separate partition. I install my
programs to a "programs" partition and I save all my files to a
"files" partition. Doing a clean install requires a lot of
time--fdisk, installing WinXP, Windows Updates, Drivers, Programs,
etc. I won't have this kind of time while I'm on the road.

My question is, is there an application that I can use to copy my
WinXP partition after a clean install (including all the updates,
drivers, programs, etc.) so I can use it later if my system becomes
unstable or corrupted? My hardware configuration and programs will
stay exactly the same during my trip.

I'm sure this product exists, I just don't know what it is. Thanks.
 
bootitng.com

You can make a space on your hd and copy the C: to it, then boot from
either. If you like it they'd like $30.
 
Norton Ghost can do this. Atomicpark.com has it as part of the Norton
Systemworks package. Make sure that Ghost is part of the package , because
some versions of Systemworks don't have Ghost.
Peter Cowie
 
Will, any of the products suggested will work, personally I like Drive
Image. You don't mention how many disk drives are involved in the 3
partitions and you if it's only 1 then you better make images of all 3
partitions in case you loose the disk.
 
You can try bootitng free. It does everything but expects to be paid $30 in
30 days if you keep it on there.
 
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