Re: Properly backing up my W2K OS

On Mar 3, 2:07 am, Sid Knee <mevagis...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Tim Holland wrote:
Some people are talking about installing either this programme or
Ghost under Dos. Can I do this in the Dos prompt option of W2K?

I think the "some" in this instance is me since I mentioned my mild
distrust of doing a Windows backup from within Windows (that would
include a Windows command prompt. Never tried it - nor wanted to - but I
somehow doubt that it would work).

My preference (with Ghost) is to install Ghost in Windows then use it to
make a DOS (real dos) boot-disk containing the Ghost backup facility
(with USB access if desired).


I'm suspicious of using Ghost 2003, but I also own Ghost 9.0. I
installed it on Drive C:. How can I make a DOS boot-disk with this?

By the way, I eventually succeeded in getting rid of my temporary
Drive J: but my USB external drive (which used to be J:) became K:
while the temporary drive was there. It's still K:, even after
rebooting. Can I use DM to change its name, or could that be
dangerous?

Does it matter, anyway? Is there anything awkward that could occur if
the drive were always K:? Could it somehow rename itself on its own?

Thanks for all your help.

Tim




Boot from that and (using the admittedly
crude user interface) do the backup. No open, locked,
changing-on-the-fly or otherwise questionable files that may or may not
be able to be backed up. Just a one-for-one image that can be verified
on the same basis. Easy and quick - why complicate matters?

You can of course, still open the image file from the Windows Ghost
installation and extract individual files, directories etc.

Actually, I started with the Ghost boot-floppy but later added the files
to a bootable-cd that contains some other tools (Partition Magic,
manufacturers' HD test utilities etc). It's a mini-cd that's easy to
carry from machine to machine along with my usb backup hd.


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