RE: Bootable Backup Image on External Drive?
From: BAR (BAR_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 12/21/04
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Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2004 04:49:12 -0800
A 'backup' of your internal IDE drive, made with Ghost or Drive image will be
a single compressed file. It is impossible to use this as a bootable drive
for that very reason.
One uses Ghost or the like to create a backup from which the C Drive can be
recreated using a restore process.
Should you find that you have corrupted your internal drive, then you would
use the bootable floopy disk set made by Ghost in order to load up a DOS
environment and restore from the external drive.
Should you wish to clone your C Drive then you should carefully read the
instructions for this process. In order for you to be able to take a cloned
drive out of the USB enclosure and install it into the PC [replacing a failed
C Drive] you should also make sure that it is an identical unit to the C
drive [make, model, size]. If it isn't identical, Windows' anti piracy
features will prevent the system from booting and you will need to perform a
repair installation of XP before attempting to boot from that drive.
Similarly, if you use it for the purposes of backup, then when it restores
to a new Hard Drive, it must be to an identical unit to the C drive [make,
model, size], if the original C drive has failed.
Prior to using any new hard drive in the pC it must first be initialised and
then formatted: you'll need to perform this in a workling XP system or from
an XP installation CD or using a third party disk management utility. Such
utilities are supplied free with new Retail packaged disks from most
manufacturers including Maxtor and Seagate.
"Kevin Malec" wrote:
> Most external drives that i've seen (all that i've seen) actually contain a
> normal ide drive in them, if that helps you any. you could switch them if
> your main one fails.
>
> do you have the external drive set up to boot (ie, an exact copy of the main
> drive)? if you just have the files backed up using most backup programs or
> some sort of archive format, I doubt it would boot. if you have or were
> using a program like partition magic to copy the whole partition to the
> external drive, it should work. (partition magic messed up MY external usb
> hard drive, so I wouldn't recommend using it actually, other similar programs
> worked though).
> I could show you how to copy the whole disk to a file, mirror it to another
> disk, restore it, etc, but using linux. if you want to do this using a
> bootable cd like knoppix, ask me.
>
> "dykesc" wrote:
>
> > I am able to make a backup image of my internal C:\ drive onto an external
> > drive I just bought. My question is; how do I get my computer to boot and
> > load windows from the external drive if my C:\ drive fails? My external
> > drive is not selectable as a boot source in my bios setup. Thanks in advance
> > for any help on this.
> >
> >
> >
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