making a backup onto another drive

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Got a system running windows 98, and a 20gb HDD. On this drive there is
2.1Gb of data, including all the windows folders etc.

I would like to back up the entire drive onto a partition on my other PC.

I have taken the HDD out and installed it into my second PC. This PC has an
80gb HDD partioned into a 50gb (c drive) and 30 gb (D drive).

Now, the file structure in windows98 will be in Fat32, while XP is in NTFS.


Is there a simple utility that can backup the entire drive of the win98
machine into a specified folder on the D drive of the XP machine?
In the even of a disk failure, it should just be a matter of restoring the
data back onto a replacement HDD. It should make the the drive bootable, and
functioning prior to the incident.

TIA
 
Aosmosis said:
Got a system running windows 98, and a 20gb HDD. On this drive there
is 2.1Gb of data, including all the windows folders etc.

I would like to back up the entire drive onto a partition on my other
PC.
Ok

I have taken the HDD out and installed it into my second PC. This PC
has an 80gb HDD partioned into a 50gb (c drive) and 30 gb (D drive).

Now, the file structure in windows98 will be in Fat32, while XP is in
NTFS.

Is there a simple utility that can backup the entire drive of the
win98 machine into a specified folder on the D drive of the XP
machine? In the even of a disk failure, it should just be a matter of
restoring the data back onto a replacement HDD. It should make the
the drive bootable, and functioning prior to the incident.
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Norton Ghost or some other imaging software would work.

If you have the machines networked then you should be able to schedule it to
run automatically

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Aosmosis said:
Got a system running windows 98, and a 20gb HDD. On this drive there is
2.1Gb of data, including all the windows folders etc.

I would like to back up the entire drive onto a partition on my other PC.

I have taken the HDD out and installed it into my second PC. This PC has an
80gb HDD partioned into a 50gb (c drive) and 30 gb (D drive).

Now, the file structure in windows98 will be in Fat32, while XP is in NTFS.


Is there a simple utility that can backup the entire drive of the win98
machine into a specified folder on the D drive of the XP machine?
In the even of a disk failure, it should just be a matter of restoring the
data back onto a replacement HDD. It should make the the drive bootable, and
functioning prior to the incident.

TIA
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You can certainly copy the disk onto the 'D' drive of your XP machine as XP
will read FAT32 but won't it write in NTFS which will make it impossible to
do the copy back again.

How much is used on the 'D' drive, can you make another partition on that
drive say around 10 gig and format it as FAT32 that way you can copy either
way without problems.
 
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