To make it bootable you would have to install an o/s on it, and I don't
believe you can boot win from an external drive.
Take a look at drive imaging software, eg Symantec Ghost or Acronis True
Image, and its usage.
MS Backup is not realy designed for what you want to achieve.
2) I thought, maybe I'm wrong, that the recovery partion allowed you to make
recovery disks
"FuzzyCritter" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> 1. Am adding on a new disk drive and wish to make it bootable
> (since head crashes are kown to happen without any reason).
> I do a BACKUP occasionally and the backup is already stored
> on the system SECOND disk drive. The drive about to be installed
> is a removeable 200 Gig Maxtor. No problems that I know of on
> creating and installing. But, since I already do a backup all
> I wish to have on the new drive is to have it bootable and a copy
> of backup. Plain and simple. But, I assume that MS backup requires
> the complete Windows operating system. It is not a stand alone program
> or is it. If it is, all I need to do is make the drive bootable and
> have a copy of backup on it. Don't think it's going to be that easy.
>
> 2. The system is an HP with XP multimedia. On the original drive is
> the recovery partition. Big deal. If that drive completely zaps out
> so much for a system recovery. And why are the files in that partition
> FAT32? I also assume that these files are not touched when I do an
> automatic update of the operating system. In fact, as far as I can see,
> they are completely useless to me.
>
> Since the system is now about 4 years old, just planning for the
> unable to boot problem. Would like to have the new drive bootable
> and a copy of backup so I can restore the whole drive. Is this asking
> for too much? So, exactly what files do I need for an MS Backup restore?
>
> TIA
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