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

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From: Pivert (pivert_at_be.me)
Date: 10/17/04 

Date: Sun, 17 Oct 2004 15:15:31 +0200

His goal as I understand is not to boot from D: but have an image of C: on
D: and restore from D: to C: in case of trouble.
So he needs :
- image of C: on D:
- copy of MBR of C: just in case MBR gets corrupt as well

Best way is Norton Ghost or Acronis TrueImage, but both are commercial
packages ( although not very expensive, and both can now create the image
from within an active windows session, making it easy to do while working)

Freeware :
- http://www.partition-saving.com/ ( DOS based)

Pivert

"R. McCarty" <PcEngWork-NoSpam_@mindspring.com> a écrit dans le message de
news:X%tcd.6811$NX5.1906@newsread3.news.atl.earthlink.net...
> Even with an exact image & set Active, you'll have issues with trying to
> boot from the D:\ copy. For you to test it, you'll have to "Hide" the C:
> drive. D: is an exact image, but it's contents all point/use C:. With both
> C: & D: seen by BIOS and enumerated by XP it's always going to try
> and boot from C:. Perhaps this is confusing - but the point is you can
> image C: ->D: but to boot from D: you'll have it make it appear to the
> system as C:. (Hide or Unplug the original C: disk).
>
> "G.Beat" <onw9mapsgb@no.comcast.spam.invalid> wrote in message
> news:%23m9K%23dEtEHA.2660@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
> > "Buford T. Justice" <???@msn.com> wrote in message
> > news:2tevfeF1uh0v7U1@uni-berlin.de...
> >>I tried V11.0 when I had the error in my previous message. I tried
V10.0
> >>tonight which made a perfect copy, but the drive is not bootable. I
> >>wonder if this has to do with Disk Management since Windows XP was
> >>originally installed to C:\ and when booting from D:\ it sees that it
was
> >>not the original drive for some reason. I need to leave both drives in
at
> >>the same time.
> >>
> >> What I want to do is leave both drives in, run a program that will make
a
> >> perfect, bootable copy of Windows XP on C:\ to D:\. I don't want to
have
> >> a simple file backup. I want it to work exactly like C:\.
> >>
> >> BTJustice
> >>
> >
> > The partition on the copied MUST be set to active. Some programs fail
to
> > perform this step. PartitionMagic can quickly resolve this problem.
> >
> > gb
> >
>
>

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