Re: BACK-UP/Copy Hard Drive Question
- From: "Colin Barnhorst" <colinbarharst@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2005 05:09:48 -0600
A backup of the system drive needs to be 'restored' to the drive, not just
copied to it, in order for the system to function. A cd with a backup file
on it is just a data cd, not an OS on a bootable cd (also called a Live CD).
"katie jay" <noone@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> -I have been slowly reading the ng and came across the message below in
> response to another poster.
> I am running XP Pro.
> I have 4 hardrives with one dedicated to documents and such. Three have
> plenty of space(152gb) and the OS sits on C which is 20 gb. I decided to
> use the backup that came with XP and went through the wizard, and I now
> have a complete copy of C drive on my H drive.
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> I am wondering two things:
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> will i be able to use that copy if I need to replace c drive due to
> problems, assuming i can get into the h drive through safe mode?
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> if i copy the folder with the backup file to a cd, will it boot the
> machine if i am unable to get into for some reason or another.
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> I do have the original cd's of the OS, plus ghost cd's that were made when
> the computer was built. Howver, that was several years ago and many things
> have changed.
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> I keep cpoies of all programs on h as well so that I don;t have to go
> through all the rigamarole of finding them.
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> thanks for any help with two questions.
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> katiejay
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> "Carey Frisch [MVP]" <cnfrisch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>> You'll need a third-party imaging program.
>>
>> Norton Ghost 9.0
>> http://www.symantec.com/sabu/ghost/ghost_personal/features.html
>>
>> Animated Shockwave Ghost tutorial with sound
>> http://www.symantec.com/techsupp/tutorial/ghost_2002/2001032917165825_s.html
>>
>> How to perform a disk-to-disk clone
>> http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPORT/ghost.nsf/pfdocs/2001032917165825
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>> Introduction to cloning a Windows NT, Windows 2000, or Windows XP
>> computer
>> http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPORT/ghost.nsf/docid/1999070716282425?Open&src=&docid=1999050308324125&nsf=ghost.nsf&view=docid&dtype=&prod=&ver=&osv=&osv_lvl
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>> --
>> Carey Frisch
>> Microsoft MVP
>> Windows XP - Shell/User
>> Microsoft Newsgroups
>>
>> Get Windows XP Service Pack 2 with Advanced Security Technologies:
>> http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/protect/windowsxp/choose.mspx
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>> "Howard Graham" wrote:
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>> | Before I set up a RAID I want to make an identical back up bootable
>> hard
>> | drive. How can I do this in XP?
>> |
>> | Howard
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