Windows XP Backup and CD Key?

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Mike Fields said:
Unless of course you go to the wilder security forums (support for
Acronis)
and read what other users have to say about corrupt images etc with the
new version 9 that just came out. I bought the latest version 8 (build
937)
and it would not clone a drive on my machine. The backups seemed OK,
but the clone operation sets everything up, reboots to load itself and
promptly loses the second drive it was going to clone to. Even the disk
manager can't find it again until you do a complete reset !! Others
also reported the same problem. There are quite a few people
complaining over there. The best way to check your clone/disk image
is to get a spare drive and pretend you had a primary drive failure.
Disconnect the primary boot drive, put the spare in and do a "restore"
operation. You should be able to get the system back up cleanly.
Check out the support forum for Acronis at
http://www.wilderssecurity.com/forumdisplay.php?f=65

mikey
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Acronis have a reputation of creating brilliant products
with terrible quality issues. I suspect they maintain an
aggressive pricing structure by saving money on beta
testing.
 
Pegasus (MVP) said:
Acronis have a reputation of creating brilliant products
with terrible quality issues. I suspect they maintain an
aggressive pricing structure by saving money on beta
testing.
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Which wouldn't be so bad for some utilities, but to discover your
backups are worthless when you need them is a bit much (and we
are not talking just one or two people with these issues). I did
buy 8.0, but like many others, am not going near their new
version 9 for a while - if ever. I may just switch back to
the version 7 drive image I have (before Symantec got their
paws on it).

mikey
 
Justin said:
I would like to stay legal. I'm too old for that shit.
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Gee you're good, though stupid enough to have an "illegal" copy in the first
place, hence the predicament you're in.
thanks for the editorial.
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You're very welcome, plenty more where that came from.
You never had the luxury to take a dump? no wonder you're so grumpy.
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Not me you're the old one.

- Winux P
 
You have to back up the "System State".

If you have Ghost and/or Acronis, why bother with ntbackup?
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ntbackup will backup directoresd and files selectively.
Acronis, and image backup in general, don't do that.
 
I don't have Ghost or Acronis :-) Is the ntback up reliable and is it like
Ghost or Acronis or should I buy one of them?

Alias
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To some extent it depends on you backup media. ntbackup is oriented to
tape and at least the last time I played with it wouldn't break a
backup into chunks for CD/DVD media and it won't write directly to
them, anyway.

ntbackup is fine but I consider it a free tool for professionals.
Acronis is fine for everyone if it fits your other requirements.

Any backup/recovery solution you've tested is better than one you
haven't tested.


http://www.taobackup.org/
 
I think I will just have to break down and buy Acronis. By testing it you
mean, say, if I put an image on an externa, USB hard drive, switching the
hard drives to see if the imaged one works? Or restoring?

Alias
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http://www.taobackup.org/

Don't pay for Acronis until you've proved to yourself that you can
write to your USB device and read back from the Acronis boot CD. The
same goes for Ghost or any other backup/restore package.

IMO USB drivers and CD/DVD devices in general are not quite generic
and there is some real crap out there.

These day's I'm burning work data to CDs on a per-project basis and I
get them out of the house frequently. then I image my C drive and
laptop drive to two 200GB disks in my big desktop machine. I
flip-flop between the two drives and keep at least two generations of
images (50GB each) on each disk.
 
Pegasus said:
I recommend this:
- Be open about this issue and start a new thread with your
real question, e.g. "How to legalise an pirated copy of WinXP",
instead of beating about the bush with irrelevant backup questions.
- Use the same name each time when posting so that we know
who's talking.
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Yadda, yadda, yadda...
I know how to do a repair installation.
 
Here's my two cents although I am not an advanced user nor an MVP. It sounds
as though you are saying you have a genuine volume in your computer and are
either trying to make an illegal volume, or bought and illegal volume from
EBay or where ever and you want the legal registration key you have to work
for the illegal volume or obtain a registration key for the illegal volume.
If you have a genuine volume intstalled in your computer which has a
registration key and you just bought a genuine volume as a gift it would also
have a registration key, meaning you and the recipient of your gift would
have full support. I don't understand where your problem is arising from
unless you have obtained or created an illegal copy. I'm just a simple person
who doesn't include my toilet habits in public shared information so maybe
you need to explain this to me again for me to understand your root problem.
 
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