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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
 
You'll need a third-party imaging program.

Norton Ghost 9.0
http://www.symantec.com/sabu/ghost/ghost_personal/features.html

Animated Shockwave Ghost tutorial with sound
http://www.symantec.com/techsupp/tutorial/ghost_2002/2001032917165825_s.html

How to perform a disk-to-disk clone
http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPORT/ghost.nsf/pfdocs/2001032917165825

Introduction to cloning a Windows NT, Windows 2000, or Windows XP computer
http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPOR...nsf&view=docid&dtype=&prod=&ver=&osv=&osv_lvl

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| Before I set up a RAID I want to make an identical back up bootable hard
| drive. How can I do this in XP?
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| 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

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.
 
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.

Richard.
 
-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
 
A backup of the system drive needs to be 'restored' to the drive, not just
copied to it, in order for the system to function. A cd with a backup file
on it is just a data cd, not an OS on a bootable cd (also called a Live CD).
 
The copy function is for making an exact copy of a drive to another drive.
The source drive is then removed from the system. The jumpers on the
destination drive are changed accordingly (either to master, cable select
(use the connector at the end of the ribbon cable for the master drive) or
single drive (if that is the case).

An image "file" is a single file (usually) that is an exact image of the
source partition. This file can be restored to the "original" source
partition if you have problems in the future. The image file can be on
another hard drive, on CD's (many needed) or on DVD's.

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Regards,

Richard Urban
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Quote from: George Ankner
"If you knew as much as you thought you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!"
 
I've been using norton ghost with great success if you end up actually
wanting to purchase a program.

-Matt
 
matt_fleming said:
I've been using norton ghost with great success if you end up actually
wanting to purchase a program.

-Matt
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Have you ever used it to reinstall everything?

FS
 
-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

Do you have XP Home or Pro?

If Home, XP's backup is good for creating extra copies of files.

If Pro, the ASR function in NTBackup is usable and can restore the entire
system. ASR is bit clunky in that to restore because it installs the
operating system and *then* restores from the ASR backup set.

Imaging software can be used with Pro or Home. The program creates an image
file (or files depending on options you choose). The same program is used
to restore the image. Neat and fast compared to ASR. With most of the
imaging programs the image files can be stored on CDs, DVDs, networked
drives, external drives.

I've personally used Image for Windows (www.terabyteunlimited.com) and
Acronis True Image (www.acronis.com). Both programs allow you to restore
the entire image (disaster recovery) or to explore the image and pull out
copies of specific files or folders. I like both programs equally well but
think that Acronis is easier to use if you're not very "geeky."
 
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.
 
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.
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Well that's discouraging. :-(

FS.......
 
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