My scheme is using two hard drives, the second is in a removable tray. I
weekly use Ghost to clone my main drive to the second. After cloning I
turn the second drive off so it can't be hurt by anything. The second
drive is bootable by a simple jumper swap in case my main drive throws a
rod or something mechanical goes wrong. If it's just a matter of
software screwing things up on my main drive I can just as easily clone
the second drive back to my main drive and be good to go again in less
than 15 minutes.
Re: Cloned my HD successfully but the 2nd. attempt was a failure ... (THE BASIC ISSUE IS THAT USING THE GHOST 2003 PROGRAM, ... UNABLE TO CLONE THE CONTENTS OF ONE HD TO ANOTHER HD. ... NOT CLEAR WHETHER THE SAMSUNG HD IS DEFECTIVE AND THAT'S WHAT CAUSING THE ... (microsoft.public.windowsxp.general)
Re: 2 Hard Drives... 2 Perect Bootable Copies... ... >> Does Norton Ghost make a clone of a Windows XP drive to another and the ... then Norton Ghost is probably what I need. ... >> affair that you'll be cloning one hard drive to another. ... With both drives connected, you boot up with the Ghost floppy ... (microsoft.public.windowsxp.general)
Re: Differences between cloned drive and original ... I have Ghost 9. ... to the clone also whenever the files are updated). ... some day soon swap the drives around, make the 250GB the primary and the ... >> I've been using Ghost 2003 to make a clone of my Master... (microsoft.public.windowsxp.basics)
Re: How not to install SP 2 ... >>using Norton Ghost just in case, which is a weekly routine for me anyway. ... Even though I have the Windows XP disk that came with the ... also power down the computer to install the drives.... It will work with CD burners, but I don't trust CD-R's to clone my valuable ... (microsoft.public.windowsxp.general)
Re: Backing up the system ... IDE disks mounted in a removable trays, and each clone is bootable. ... When you clone the contents of your working drive to the destination drive (bearing in mind we're talking about removable internal drives in their mobile racks), the destination drive, being for all practical purposes an exact duplicate of the source drive, is bootable and there's no need to edit its boot.ini file. ... the context of archiving several bootable partitions on the same backup drive. ... one must be aware which of the multiple system partitions on a drive has been marked "active". ... (microsoft.public.windowsxp.general)
