Backup strategy for a system which may need a hard drive replacement

From: George Saridakis (george_at_saridakis.com)
Date: 01/27/05 

Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2005 16:45:28 -0500

Hi Folks,

I have a laptop with a single hard drive which may be going south and want
to devise a backup and restore strategy that will minimize fix time.

If I look at my hard drive folders, I have the following:

  1.. Dell
  2.. Documents and Settings
  3.. Program Files
  4.. Windows

If I backup 2 & 3, and get a replacement disk which is not identical to the
current hard drive, can I restore 2 & 3 and expect them to work as before
the hard drive replacement?

What happens to the old system state with the new hard drive?

thanks

George

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