With an IDE hd,set as slave on the same IDE chain as C: Format the hd in
xp,once thru,go to run,type:XCOPY C:\*.* D:\ /c/h/e/k/r Agree to all in
the
DOS window,once its thru,C: is now cloned to D: D: being the slave hd.If
asigned diffrent letter,then use that letter.As for consistantly writing
to
the
slave hd,one could schedule xp to consistantly backup to the slave hd,but
then
if xp is corrupted in any manner then so are the files its backing up
with.I would
clone as described and leave it as is....
"davdun75" wrote:
I have backed up both my HD entirely, to a third physical drive - I'm not
sure this is what I want... is there software that will clone my boot
drive
to a different physical drive, and then automatically write to that
second
"backup" drive (as well as the primary boot drive) during normal
operation;
in the event my boot drive fails, I figure I could restore the system
simply
by setting up the "backup" drive as the boot drive?
Re: Backup and HD cloning ... DOS window,once its thru,C: is now cloned to D: D: being the slave hd.If ... asigned diffrent letter,then use that letter.As for consistantly writing... Have you any idea the number of people/organisations that religiously backup... Many important system files are protected from being opened by ... (microsoft.public.windowsxp.general)
Re: Backup and HD cloning ... DOS window,once its thru,C: is now cloned to D: D: being the slave... asigned diffrent letter,then use that letter.As for consistantly writing... slave hd,one could schedule xp to consistantly backup to the slave ... Many important system files are protected from being opened by ... (microsoft.public.windowsxp.general)
Re: Backup and HD cloning ... DOS window,once its thru,C: is now cloned to D: D: being the slave hd.If ... asigned diffrent letter,then use that letter.As for consistantly writing... Have you any idea the number of people/organisations that religiously backup... Many important system files are protected from being opened by ... (microsoft.public.windowsxp.general)
Re: Partition help ... change that makes the current clone outdated.... I also backup email and the email address book to the external hard drive on ... the idea of backing up to a partition on the same hard drive ... your HDD.... (microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support)
Re: Cloning my hard drive? ... And obviously the two tasks, clone vs. image, are close enough to argue about. ... I say that because the only reason I am making the backup is for when something goes awry on the internal source drive, and I need to restore the internal source drive from the external backup drive. ... comprehensive backup system of one's day-to-day working HDD.... I'm not swapping any drives here. ... (microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support)
