Re: BACK-UP/Copy Hard Drive Question

The copy function is for making an exact copy of a drive to another drive.
The source drive is then removed from the system. The jumpers on the
destination drive are changed accordingly (either to master, cable select
(use the connector at the end of the ribbon cable for the master drive) or
single drive (if that is the case).

An image "file" is a single file (usually) that is an exact image of the
source partition. This file can be restored to the "original" source
partition if you have problems in the future. The image file can be on
another hard drive, on CD's (many needed) or on DVD's.

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Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User

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"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.
>
> thanks for any help with two questions.
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> katiejay
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> "Carey Frisch [MVP]" <cnfrisch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:%23eyc3S0MFHA.3336@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> 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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