How to backup entire image on C:?

[jannlin]

I have a SONY laptop grx 520k runing W2k SP4. I recently installed an external hard drive exlcosure with a 2.5 " HD of the same kind on my laptop. I want to copy the entire C: to my external HD with boot. The idea is once the internal one crashed, I can simply swap the external dirve to internal slot and go on my merry way.

I have installed the same W2K provided by SONY to the external disk successfully and can boot up from that when I put the HD internally.

I tried to run xcopy c: g: /e /h. But it failed to copy many files due to access violation. I wonder if this is caused by the reason that my external disk was not empty?

Anyway, what is the best way to create a bootable HD with the same image on C drive? Thanks.

[andyms18a]

you nead a dos based prog like gost or drive image all so check out your hard drive manufactures web site as it may have a free image prog you can download to a floppy disk and run