boot disk question

[rb]

With Win XP.....on hard drive backups.....does the boot disk the backup
program makes allow you to get to and recover from the files on a USB hard
drive, when the master disk goes sourth?

 

[Thee Chicago Wolf]

With Win XP.....on hard drive backups.....does the boot disk the backup

program makes allow you to get to and recover from the files on a USB hard
drive, when the master disk goes sourth?

Yes, it should if it is formatted as FAT32. If it is NTFS, you might
have to use a free 3rd party piece of software or a Live Linux CD with
NTFS support of some sorts to get it off. OR, you can always plug it
into a working XP/Vista computer and get things that way.

- Thee Chicago Wolf

 

[David B.]

What exactly is "the boot disk the backup program"?