Mirror Image of my hard drive

I routinely back up my data and personal files on two CDs every month or so.
(running WinXP, P4, 80 gig drive with about 50 gig of systems and data.)

I am considering buying an external 120 gig hard drive (will use USB 2.0) to
make a complete image of my hard drive. In the event of a hard drive crash
some day, I shudder to think of reconstructing the drive. I have done that
when with my older P3 running Win98, but for me it might be a bit much with
XP.

What software is available to do this? I looked at the Windows backup
utility that came with XP and have not yet figured out if that would do it.

I know this subject has come up before, but cannot locate specific
information.

Thanks in advance.

--
Dave C.

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Dave C. wrote:

> I routinely back up my data and personal files on two CDs every month
> or so. (running WinXP, P4, 80 gig drive with about 50 gig of systems
> and data.)
>
> I am considering buying an external 120 gig hard drive (will use USB
> 2.0) to make a complete image of my hard drive. In the event of a
> hard drive crash some day, I shudder to think of reconstructing the
> drive. I have done that when with my older P3 running Win98, but for
> me it might be a bit much with XP.
>
> What software is available to do this? I looked at the Windows
> backup utility that came with XP and have not yet figured out if that
> would do it.
>
> I know this subject has come up before, but cannot locate specific
> information.
>
> Thanks in advance.

You might xxcopy (search google) or:

DrvImagerXP

Unlike typical backup programs that copy files, DrvImagerXP makes
backups (image files) of NTFS and FAT32 drive partition structures (as
well as floppy disks), for the Windows 2000/XP operating systems, by
copying, byte-for-byte, the drive partition sectors. And when not using
file compression, can do this very quickly, much faster than copying
files.

You'll never have to install your operating system again! You can
install it, make all your option changes and get it just right, then
use DrvImagerXP to create a partition image that you could name "Fresh
Install". If you need to go back to a brand new fresh installation of
your operating system, you can restore the partition using the "Fresh
Install" image in just a few minutes.

http://woundedmoon.org/win32/drvimagerxpsetup_2.2.exe

-Art-

On 24 Feb 2005 04:48:21 +0100, Art2U wrote:

> Dave C. wrote:
>
>> I routinely back up my data and personal files on two CDs every month
>> or so. (running WinXP, P4, 80 gig drive with about 50 gig of systems
>> and data.)
>>
>> I am considering buying an external 120 gig hard drive (will use USB
>> 2.0) to make a complete image of my hard drive. In the event of a
>> hard drive crash some day, I shudder to think of reconstructing the
>> drive. I have done that when with my older P3 running Win98, but for
>> me it might be a bit much with XP.
>>
>> What software is available to do this? I looked at the Windows
>> backup utility that came with XP and have not yet figured out if that
>> would do it.
>>
>> I know this subject has come up before, but cannot locate specific
>> information.
>>
>> Thanks in advance.
>
> You might xxcopy (search google) or:
>
> DrvImagerXP
>
> Unlike typical backup programs that copy files, DrvImagerXP makes
> backups (image files) of NTFS and FAT32 drive partition structures (as
> well as floppy disks), for the Windows 2000/XP operating systems, by
> copying, byte-for-byte, the drive partition sectors. And when not using
> file compression, can do this very quickly, much faster than copying
> files.
>
> You'll never have to install your operating system again! You can
> install it, make all your option changes and get it just right, then
> use DrvImagerXP to create a partition image that you could name "Fresh
> Install". If you need to go back to a brand new fresh installation of
> your operating system, you can restore the partition using the "Fresh
> Install" image in just a few minutes.
>
> http://woundedmoon.org/win32/drvimagerxpsetup_2.2.exe
>
> -Art-

Thanks for that! I've been looking for such a program for some time now...

--
Kerodo

>On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 20:48:04 -0500, "Dave C." <c9ar9dar9elli@9c4.n9et> wrote:

>I routinely back up my data and personal files on two CDs every month or so.
>(running WinXP, P4, 80 gig drive with about 50 gig of systems and data.)
>
>I am considering buying an external 120 gig hard drive (will use USB 2.0) to
>make a complete image of my hard drive. In the event of a hard drive crash
>some day, I shudder to think of reconstructing the drive. I have done that
>when with my older P3 running Win98, but for me it might be a bit much with
>XP.
>
>What software is available to do this? I looked at the Windows backup
>utility that came with XP and have not yet figured out if that would do it.
>
>I know this subject has come up before, but cannot locate specific
>information.
>
>Thanks in advance.
>
Some of the External USB Hard Disks have a One-Button Backup Feature
where you depress a Button on the front of the USB Hard Disk and your
Primary Hard Disk Is Backed-Up to it. The required Software comes with
the Retail Box USB Hard Disk.

Mel wrote:
>
> >On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 20:48:04 -0500, "Dave C." <c9ar9dar9elli@9c4.n9et> wrote:
>
> >I routinely back up my data and personal files on two CDs every month or so.
> >(running WinXP, P4, 80 gig drive with about 50 gig of systems and data.)
> >
> >I am considering buying an external 120 gig hard drive (will use USB 2.0) to
> >make a complete image of my hard drive. In the event of a hard drive crash
> >some day, I shudder to think of reconstructing the drive. I have done that
> >when with my older P3 running Win98, but for me it might be a bit much with
> >XP.
> >
> >What software is available to do this? I looked at the Windows backup
> >utility that came with XP and have not yet figured out if that would do it.
> >
> >I know this subject has come up before, but cannot locate specific
> >information.
> >
> >Thanks in advance.
> >
> Some of the External USB Hard Disks have a One-Button Backup Feature
> where you depress a Button on the front of the USB Hard Disk and your
> Primary Hard Disk Is Backed-Up to it. The required Software comes with
> the Retail Box USB Hard Disk.

Thanks

LB

Thanks for the information. Will look into it.

--
Dave C.

c9ar9dar9elli@9c4.n9et

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"Art2U" <HateSpam@x-privat.org> wrote in message
news:421d4e85$1@x-privat.org...
> Dave C. wrote:
>
>> I routinely back up my data and personal files on two CDs every month
>> or so. (running WinXP, P4, 80 gig drive with about 50 gig of systems
>> and data.)
>>
>> I am considering buying an external 120 gig hard drive (will use USB
>> 2.0) to make a complete image of my hard drive. In the event of a
>> hard drive crash some day, I shudder to think of reconstructing the
>> drive. I have done that when with my older P3 running Win98, but for
>> me it might be a bit much with XP.
>>
>> What software is available to do this? I looked at the Windows
>> backup utility that came with XP and have not yet figured out if that
>> would do it.
>>
>> I know this subject has come up before, but cannot locate specific
>> information.
>>
>> Thanks in advance.
>
> You might xxcopy (search google) or:
>
> DrvImagerXP
>
> Unlike typical backup programs that copy files, DrvImagerXP makes
> backups (image files) of NTFS and FAT32 drive partition structures (as
> well as floppy disks), for the Windows 2000/XP operating systems, by
> copying, byte-for-byte, the drive partition sectors. And when not using
> file compression, can do this very quickly, much faster than copying
> files.
>
> You'll never have to install your operating system again! You can
> install it, make all your option changes and get it just right, then
> use DrvImagerXP to create a partition image that you could name "Fresh
> Install". If you need to go back to a brand new fresh installation of
> your operating system, you can restore the partition using the "Fresh
> Install" image in just a few minutes.
>
> http://woundedmoon.org/win32/drvimagerxpsetup_2.2.exe
>
> -Art-

Thanks, I will check that out too.

--
Dave C.

c9ar9dar9elli@9c4.n9et

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"Mel" <MJ@nospam.com> wrote in message
news:vhsq115ov5daq01qnmccm0mmoc352v28e3@4ax.com...
> >On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 20:48:04 -0500, "Dave C." <c9ar9dar9elli@9c4.n9et>
> >wrote:
>
>>I routinely back up my data and personal files on two CDs every month or
>>so.
>>(running WinXP, P4, 80 gig drive with about 50 gig of systems and data.)
>>
>>I am considering buying an external 120 gig hard drive (will use USB 2.0)
>>to
>>make a complete image of my hard drive. In the event of a hard drive
>>crash
>>some day, I shudder to think of reconstructing the drive. I have done
>>that
>>when with my older P3 running Win98, but for me it might be a bit much
>>with
>>XP.
>>
>>What software is available to do this? I looked at the Windows backup
>>utility that came with XP and have not yet figured out if that would do
>>it.
>>
>>I know this subject has come up before, but cannot locate specific
>>information.
>>
>>Thanks in advance.
>>
> Some of the External USB Hard Disks have a One-Button Backup Feature
> where you depress a Button on the front of the USB Hard Disk and your
> Primary Hard Disk Is Backed-Up to it. The required Software comes with
> the Retail Box USB Hard Disk.

I've downloaded drvimagerXP v2.2, and have successfully created an
image of my C: drive onto an external USB Drive (Drive E I am running
XP home.

In the event that my C drive crashed, preventing my machine from
botting up, how do I restore my C image to a new C drive (let's say I
am upgrading to larger drive at the same time?

Can I create a bootable floppy that can access my USB drive with
drvimagerXp installed on it? Is there enough disk space for system
startup, mouse, USB driver and drvimagerXP? Or do you have other
suggestions? Thanks.

On 7 Mar 2005 08:48:33 -0800, juliuslr@gmail.com wrote:

>
>I've downloaded drvimagerXP v2.2, and have successfully created an
>image of my C: drive onto an external USB Drive (Drive E I am running
>XP home.
>
>In the event that my C drive crashed, preventing my machine from
>botting up, how do I restore my C image to a new C drive (let's say I
>am upgrading to larger drive at the same time?
>
>Can I create a bootable floppy that can access my USB drive with
>drvimagerXp installed on it? Is there enough disk space for system
>startup, mouse, USB driver and drvimagerXP? Or do you have other
>suggestions? Thanks.

If your Bios supports it, you can boot from the Usb drive, I recently
did this with a Pen Drive, (so I could boot from dos), so theres no
reason it should`nt work just the same with Windows.


Bye for now.

Clive.