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?
Whatever you do, don't take any advice from "Andrew E.".
He/she/it is a disinformation troll. Just check the Google
archives of this NG.
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 change that makes the current clone outdated....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)
Re: External Hard Drive used for System Backup. ... you for the tip about the "Startup Disc".... disc in order to clone the backup to an empty internal drive. ... someone buys the Casper 4 software after they have chatted with you. ... (microsoft.public.windowsxp.general)
Re: Clone vs. image (I promise not the same ol ground) ... tcarp - Regarding clone vs image is similar to car vs ... Will use term "Backup" to mean either. ... Full Backup refers to entire HD or select partitions - ...Laptops present a problem for cloning because the average ... (microsoft.public.windowsxp.general)
Re: Complete Backup ... I should think I would be in the market for a clone.... Subject: Re: Complete Backup... the OP) original query re a backing up strategy. ... with disk imaging programs such as Symantec's Norton Ghost or Acronis True ... (microsoft.public.windowsxp.general)
