Re: Total Backup without a Floppy Disk

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From: Ben (ben_luh_at_seed.net.tw)
Date: 08/10/04


Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2004 17:51:45 +0800

WOW! It is cool.
I backed my system up with GHOST, I could not burn it on a CD-R, because
  the image file was bigger than 1GB.
So, I just created a small partition for it.
But I dont know when will my HDD down.

PSmith wrote:

> How are you doing the backup?
>
> If you are using one of the older versions of PowerQuest Drive Image, then
> yes you need a floppy. The latest version does not suffer from this legacy
> device!
>
> Personally, I use Drive Image 7 to backup to an external Maxtor 250GB USB2
> HDD. This drive is reserved for backups and archives so it is generally
> un-powered.
>
> Paul
>
> "JIm Bartlett" <Jim.Bartlett@sbcglobal.net> wrote in message
> news:263801c47d8f$dba92ff0$a601280a@phx.gbl...
>
>>Windows XP full backup requires a floppy disk for
>>restoring. MY laptop does not have a floppy. Is there a
>>way to do this backup with a CD Rom boot disk or some
>>other way?
>
>
>



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