Re: Backup and HD cloning


"Andrew E." <eckrichco@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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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:


Have you any idea the number of people/organisations that religiously backup
their system and then when disaster strikes discover that their backup is
totally useless because they overlooked something?

Anyone you follows the above advice will join that unhappy group. A Windows
installation cannot be backed up by merely copying all the files while it is
running. Many important system files are protected from being opened by
other applications and you can't copy them either.


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