Re: COMPLETE backup of harddrive contents

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And to Gary here: I see your point of view, but, for #1, I don't care about
backing those up. Those bideo files on the hard drive can go if they want.
It's just a WHOLE lot of video tutorials for using photoshop and illustrator.
The HD came free with the computer, so I used it to save videos that I
otherwise would not have downloaded.

For #2, like I tried to point out earlier, I only REALLY care that all those
registry tweaks and transformations, and user settings tht I applied stay the
same if I had to do a hard drive switch, and I've done enough tweaks to my
system to make me happy... It took HOURs of research to find out how to do
them, what one's to do, etc. So now, I just want to have them setup if my H/D
ever fails, and I'll just continue to use my disk and page file defragmenter
to keep my computer moving quickly.

"Gary S. Terhune" wrote:

Yes, you can use the existing external HD to house your Acronis backups,
with the following serious drawbacks.

1. Makes no sense to use it to backup the other files on that same drive.
Those files aren't worth backing up?

2. You have to make your backups fairly regularly in order to have any sane
result when you have to restore them. Really, just how many days or weeks
worth of work, installations and tweaks are you willing to lose? I'm
thinking that a decent backup strategy will require more disk space than
you'll want to lose on that 100GB external drive. Set up a decent backup
strategy using that disk and then see how much space it consumes. And let
number 1, above, haunt you all the while, <s>.

--
Gary S. Terhune
MS-MVP Shell/User
www.grystmill.com

"thunderstruck_302@xxxxxxxxxxx"
<thunderstruck302hotmailcom@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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WOW! I think you have taken my question WAY out of context there buddy. I
only put that question to mkae my point as to why I am not going to take
the
hard drive out of the case. Many people are suggesting it as an option, I
made my point as to why I won't use that option (using hte form of a
question) and suddenly you turn to nasty words. Ignoring you, UNCLE
GRUMPY:

So, Gary, are you saying that for me to put that image file created by
Acronis, onto my External hard drive that houses movies as well, it would
not
work? See, my goal here is not to have a day-to-day backup of all my
files.
In fact, one backup of all of my files would satisfy me just fine, as long
as
all of my user settings and Window settings are still there, along with
all
of my Registry edits. So, is this going to work with Acronis this way?

"Uncle Grumpy" wrote:

thunderstruck_302@xxxxxxxxxxx
<thunderstruck302hotmailcom@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Ya, lots of people suggested that, but what good would that be if I
wanted to
have an external drive still?

If you have to ask that, then it would be NO good.

WHY???... because you're a moron and can't understand the simplicity
of what folks have been telling you.




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