I want to use a USB drive and enclosure and do full weekly
images of my existing hard drive. Then, should my drive
fail, I would just literally plug in the backup drive from
the enclosure and be up and running.

True Image or Migrate Easy?

Second Question:

If my desktop fails in some other way, I would like to take
the USB enclosure and the imaged drive and plug it into the
USB port of my portable. Would my portable be able to
recognize and use this imaged disk as another drive or
would the fact of two operating systems (portable has Win
XP Pro and desktop imaged drive would have Win XP Home),
confuse things and prevent me from using the imaged disk as
another drive?

In other words, could I possibly take the desktop imaged
drive and run right off my portable as if I were still
working with the desktop?

TIA

Louise

>I want to use a USB drive and enclosure and do full weekly
>images of my existing hard drive. Then, should my drive
>fail, I would just literally plug in the backup drive from
>the enclosure and be up and running.
>
>True Image or Migrate Easy?
>

I do not know migrate easy.

If it makes a copy of your hard disk on the USB disk and
if you bios allows booting from a USB device it may work.

I believe some never laptops can boot frm USB drive.

Acronis True Image makes and Image which is not bootable.

Farouk Dindar

Image files are not bootable. They are encoded information of the hard disk
partition and file system, along with the files themselves.

Believe only if you install and use Acronis can those image files be
recognizable.

XP HE or Pro installation cannot be used on another system. Nevermind
attempting a desktop installation on a laptop.
Dave
"Louise" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> I want to use a USB drive and enclosure and do full weekly
> images of my existing hard drive. Then, should my drive
> fail, I would just literally plug in the backup drive from
> the enclosure and be up and running.
>
> True Image or Migrate Easy?
>
> Second Question:
>
> If my desktop fails in some other way, I would like to take
> the USB enclosure and the imaged drive and plug it into the
> USB port of my portable. Would my portable be able to
> recognize and use this imaged disk as another drive or
> would the fact of two operating systems (portable has Win
> XP Pro and desktop imaged drive would have Win XP Home),
> confuse things and prevent me from using the imaged disk as
> another drive?
>
> In other words, could I possibly take the desktop imaged
> drive and run right off my portable as if I were still
> working with the desktop?
>
> TIA
>
> Louise