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M. B.
I am currently running Windows XP SP2 on a one partition hard drive (WD
Caviar SATA-II), which is 250 gigabytes. My curent backup unit is a HP
SureStor DAT 40 tape drive using DDS4.
Since it is now taking me like 5 tapes to backup my system, would the
following solution work for me better? Buy another INTERNAL 250 gig drive
SATA-II (around $120). Use the drive only to make "identical clone copies"
from the C: drive around about once a week using progrtam such as Norton
Ghost or Acronis True Image. So the 2nd drive would be only used for cloning
of the first. In other words in case my C: ever gets corrupted or dies, all
I do is enable the D: drive, which in essence becomes my new C:
The reason I don't want to buy an EXTERNAL drive (such as Maxtor OneTouch II
or alike) is that it takes up space, the data transfer will be slower even
on FireWire and it costs more.
My question is this:
Since I am dealing with SATA-II drives, I need to use the latest True Image
/ Norton Ghost versions. Both require that you run the program directly
from Windows XP. What will happen when I enable the D: drive for the
system boot, as since it's a clone of the C: drive, it also has a boot
sector. Will Windows boot off the correct drive? I assume that I can
disable the D: drive from within the BIOS of my motherboard (ASUS P4C800
Deluxe) for all other computer usage, but somehow I need to start the system
with both drives on in order for the cloning program to work correcly.
Can someone please enlighten me?
Caviar SATA-II), which is 250 gigabytes. My curent backup unit is a HP
SureStor DAT 40 tape drive using DDS4.
Since it is now taking me like 5 tapes to backup my system, would the
following solution work for me better? Buy another INTERNAL 250 gig drive
SATA-II (around $120). Use the drive only to make "identical clone copies"
from the C: drive around about once a week using progrtam such as Norton
Ghost or Acronis True Image. So the 2nd drive would be only used for cloning
of the first. In other words in case my C: ever gets corrupted or dies, all
I do is enable the D: drive, which in essence becomes my new C:
The reason I don't want to buy an EXTERNAL drive (such as Maxtor OneTouch II
or alike) is that it takes up space, the data transfer will be slower even
on FireWire and it costs more.
My question is this:
Since I am dealing with SATA-II drives, I need to use the latest True Image
/ Norton Ghost versions. Both require that you run the program directly
from Windows XP. What will happen when I enable the D: drive for the
system boot, as since it's a clone of the C: drive, it also has a boot
sector. Will Windows boot off the correct drive? I assume that I can
disable the D: drive from within the BIOS of my motherboard (ASUS P4C800
Deluxe) for all other computer usage, but somehow I need to start the system
with both drives on in order for the cloning program to work correcly.
Can someone please enlighten me?