Openfiles backup and recovery

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From: Sarah Tanembaum (sarahtanembaum_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 08/14/04 

Date: Sat, 14 Aug 2004 12:26:59 -0400

Does anyone have any information on how to backup openfiles or protected
files and/or directories for recovery purposes.

I have 1 physical IDE drive with 2 partitions:

C: drive - 1st OS - windows XP Home and Apps
D: drive - 2nd OS - windows XP Home and nothing else.

I boot of using the 2nd OS and try to straight copy all the C: drive onto
D:\BACKUP and
failed because there are some files/directory that is protected. Is there
any way to backup my main OS, 1st OS, and dump all to a D:\backup and/or to
multiple writable CDs for easy recovery.

That is, if for some reason I'm not able to access my primary OS or is
DEBAR(Destroyed Beyond All Recoqnition), I can just reformat my C:\
partition and reload back using the backup CDs? Thanks

OR, is there utilities I can use to backup C:\WINDOWS\System32\config
directory, that is the OpenFiles backup. Thanks

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