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Howard Graham
Before I set up a RAID I want to make an identical back up bootable hard
drive. How can I do this in XP?
Howard
drive. How can I do this in XP?
Howard
Howard Graham said:Before I set up a RAID I want to make an identical back up bootable hard
drive. How can I do this in XP?
Howard
Richard said:For a one off such as this you could use the downloadable free software
provided by your HDD manufacturer.
An imaging program such as Acronis Drive Image has a download of a free
demo version of their software. I bet when you have seen what it can do
you will buy a copy !!
Richard.
My mistake. It is called Acronis True Image.
==================matt_fleming said:I've been using norton ghost with great success if you end up actually
wanting to purchase a program.
-Matt
-I have been slowly reading the ng and came across the message below in
response to another poster.
I am running XP Pro.
I have 4 hardrives with one dedicated to documents and such. Three have
plenty of space(152gb) and the OS sits on C which is 20 gb. I decided to
use the backup that came with XP and went through the wizard, and I now have
a complete copy of C drive on my H drive.
I am wondering two things:
will i be able to use that copy if I need to replace c drive due to
problems, assuming i can get into the h drive through safe mode?
if i copy the folder with the backup file to a cd, will it boot the machine
if i am unable to get into for some reason or another.
I do have the original cd's of the OS, plus ghost cd's that were made when
the computer was built. Howver, that was several years ago and many things
have changed.
I keep cpoies of all programs on h as well so that I don;t have to go
through all the rigamarole of finding them.
thanks for any help with two questions.
katiejay
uggabugga said:That's what it does. It makes an exact copy of everything on the drive. It
works great.
==========================Does *not* work great for me. Getting 'exact copy' to boot
on new drive I have found to be not dependable at all. I find
Drive Image 7 works much better. Many posts in this
newsgroup, read 'em and weep.