Re: 2 Hard Drives... 2 Perect Bootable Copies...

Tech-Archive recommends: Speed Up your PC by fixing your registry

From: Andy (1_at_2.3)
Date: 10/17/04 

Date: Sun, 17 Oct 2004 06:51:00 GMT

One possibility: boot up from one of those CD-based Linux
distributions and use the dd command.

On Sat, 16 Oct 2004 16:35:35 -0500, "Buford T. Justice" <???@msn.com>
wrote:

>I have a computer with 2 completely identical 200 GB Western Digital hard
>drives. Windows XP is installed on the PRIMARY MASTER which is C:\. The
>other hard drive is the PRIMARY SLAVE and is D:\. It also has nothing on
>it. Both are partitioned and formatted identically with NTFS.
>
>I want to do one of the following...
>
>1) Find a free, extremely easy to use program for Windows XP that will make
>a PERFECT copy of C:\ to D:\ and make D:\ bootable in case I mess up
>something on C:\. This way I can still have Windows XP from my last
>'backup' to D:\. I would then want to run the 'backup' in reverse from D:\
>to C:\ in order to fix C:\. I realize the 'new' C:\ would be the same as
>D:\ which is what I want.
>
>2) Find a free, extremely easy to use program that uses something like
>Caldera DR DOS to boot from a floppy and will automatically make a perfect,
>bootable copy of C:\ to D:\ and can be reversible if I mess up C:\.
>
>Is any of the above possible? I realize with both of the above that I would
>have to jump D:\ as the PRIMARY MASTER so it is seen as C:\ to use it in
>case I mess up something on the original C:\ to restore my 'backup'. With
>both, I want it to preserve file & folder dates, directory structures, etc.
>
>Thanks In Advance,
>BTJustice
>

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