Re: Using Partiton Magic 8.0

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billurie_at_nospam.org
Date: 02/14/05 

Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2005 17:37:26 -0500

Ken Blake wrote:
> In news:0F6ECBB7-2907-48CA-9E96-E3C1B6172767@microsoft.com,
> BAR <BAR@discussions.microsoft.com> typed:
>
>
>>For the simple minded, yes XP can manage a single large volume
>>disk.
>>
>>If one wants to manage and prepare for disaster recovery using
>>only
>>one hard drive, then partitioning is essential.
>>
>>Let me explain: once you have spent hours and hours configuring
>>your
>>PC with XP and the dozen or so applications and / or games:
>>then it
>>is most advantages to use an application such as Ghost to IMAGE
>>the
>>drive. The image file can be used to recreate the hard drive
>>in case
>>of a catastrophe.
>>
>>One cannot take an image file and 'restore' it to the same hard
>>drive
>>or partition on which it is located. Thus partitioning the
>>Hard
>>Drive is VERY BENEFICIAL andmost useful.
>
>
>
> If you are suggesting using an image file to a second partition
> for backup, I would strongly urge you to reconsider that backup
> startegy. I don't recommend backup to a second partition because
> it leaves you susceptible to simultaneous loss of the original
> and backup to many of the most common dangers: head crashes,
> severe power glitches, nearby lightning strikes, virus attacks,
> even theft of the computer.
>
>
> In my view, secure backup needs to be on removable media, and not
> kept in the computer. For really secure backup (needed, for
> example, if the life of your business depends on your data) you
> should have multiple generations of backup, and at least one of
> those generations should be stored off-site.
>
>
>
> My computer isn't used for business, but my personal backup
> scheme uses two identical removable hard drives, which fit into a
> sleeve installed in the computer. I alternate between the two,
> and use Drive Image to make a complete copy of the primary drive.
>
>
I echo what Ken says above. For those who have followed my trials
and woes in past months, I can say that, with good help in this
group (and a few barbs and arrows), I have a working procedure that
involves Partition Magic 8 in conjunction with Drive Image 7.

I have two hard drives. Both need only be in the computer, as
a Master and a Slave, periodically when I make a drive image of my
Master drive, on the Slave drive. Should anything go bad with the
Master, I use Drive Image 7 to restore to the master, what it
contained when the drive image was made.

Partition Magic, in this simplified system, is almost superfluous,
except that it is a handy tool for increasing and decreasing the sizes
of partitions. 

-- 
                    William B. Lurie

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