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10-20-2004, 01:34 PM
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Making back up disks
I have a 80gig drive with windows xp and all my crap on it. I have a blank 80 gig drive that I want to use as back up.
does windows have a utility that can make an exact copy for me? I only want it in case of one HD dies then I can just use the other hd. |
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10-20-2004, 01:45 PM
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PCMech: Saving Lives
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I know Norton Ghost can make an image from one drive to another, but that seems unnecessary, and I don't think it can make a restore from an image on the destination drive. The hard drive mfr. will have a disk that will clone one drive to another, but I have never tried this, and I believe you might have to remove the second drive after cloning.
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10-20-2004, 03:08 PM
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what if I went to the master drive, high light every folder, copy and paste it to the new drive?
 lol would that even work? |
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10-20-2004, 03:27 PM
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Ride 'em Cowboy
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Copying all the folders would do just that. However, the drive won't be bootable. (too many files in use to be copied)
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10-20-2004, 04:33 PM
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Backing up hard drive
Hi Airmack,
Here are two sites which might help you. http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/u...ovember12.mspx http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;EN-US;302894 I've installed and used the recovery application to backup my registry however I've not had the opportunity yet to use the, "Files and Settings Transfer Wizard." According to the article (url) above its not only used for transferring files and settings to a new computer but also for backing up your files for restoration at a later date. Hope this helps and good luck. Regards DW |
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10-20-2004, 04:59 PM
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If you are fortunate enough to have a motherboard that supports RAID "1" all you have to do is enable RAID in BIOS and install the RAID drivers (which should have been done before you installed the OS) RAID "1" mirrors the first drive thus making a full HD back up automatically. But Norton Ghost is a good program as well. One of the guys at work uses that program. I haven't got a chance to ask him how it works though, but if I didn't have RAID "1" that would be what I would use for a full "mirror" disk back up.
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10-20-2004, 05:10 PM
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what drive do you have. goto the manufactures website and get the install programs (Wester digital- Data Life guard) Maxtor- maxblast. Get them and make the boot disk and run that there is a disk to disk copy on them. they are easy to use and both work great.
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10-23-2004, 10:08 AM
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i dont have raid.
but ill look into the links provided. Plus the hard drives are maxtor and WD so I dont know if the software from eather HD's will like each other. |
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10-23-2004, 10:57 AM
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There is no issue of software compatibilty involved here, the individual makers programs will copy to and from either drive in this case.
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