Often I use the Wizard to back up my System State and I assumed all
"critical" settings were stored. However, yesterday I attempted a
back-up of my root partition and most of the profiles and many system
files didn't make it (according to "verify"). Is it possible to back-up
an entire partition in which W2k resides? I thought that would be a
"duh"...

It "is" possible to back-up the OS---all of it? Soooo, I could restore
that to a diffeent drive and so long that drive had the proper MBR, I
could boot to it? Am I missing something?

Michael

On Fri, 30 Jul 2004 17:31:34 GMT, Michael <G-(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>Often I use the Wizard to back up my System State and I assumed all
>"critical" settings were stored. However, yesterday I attempted a
>back-up of my root partition and most of the profiles and many system
>files didn't make it (according to "verify"). Is it possible to back-up
>an entire partition in which W2k resides? I thought that would be a
>"duh"...
>
>It "is" possible to back-up the OS---all of it? Soooo, I could restore
>that to a diffeent drive and so long that drive had the proper MBR, I
>could boot to it? Am I missing something?
>
>Michael


Yes. Don't verify, it falsely fails.
I have never had a backup that completed not be able to restore.

See tip 2102 in the 'Tips & Tricks' at http://www.jsiinc.com

See tip 2265.


Jerold Schulman
Windows: General MVP
JSI, Inc.
http://www.jsiinc.com