Backing Up System

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I had a hard drive go out an lost all my stuff I had on
my system. how do I back-up my whole system on a c-d. So
this doesn't happen again. I have new hard drive an
everything back to normal now,
 
Another one that works well: Image for Windows from
www.terabyteunlimited.com

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers aka "Nutcase" MS-MVP - Win9x

Associate Expert - WinXP - Expert Zone



You'll need a 3rd party backup program that can burn to CD. Or a 3rd party
imaging program that will backup to a 2nd HDD or CD. I use True Image from
www.acronis.com.

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Just my 2¢ worth
Jeff
__________in response to__________
| I had a hard drive go out an lost all my stuff I had on
| my system. how do I back-up my whole system on a c-d. So
| this doesn't happen again. I have new hard drive an
| everything back to normal now,
 
x-no-archive: yes

Rick "Nutcase" Rogers said:
Another one that works well: Image for Windows from
www.terabyteunlimited.com
Click to expand...

I'm obviously a believer in TeraByte Unlimited's software, but it very
much bears mentioning that Image for Windows will *not* let you safely
image the Windows partition while you are booted into Windows. This
isn't a bug; the software just isn't designed for that.

To do the job right, you will either have to dual boot and image from
the alternate OS environment, use Image for DOS (which is included when
Image for Windows is purchased), or use BootIt NG.
 
True Image works in the Windows shell. Just to let you know.

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Just my 2¢ worth
Jeff
__________in response to__________
|
| I'm obviously a believer in TeraByte Unlimited's software, but it very
| much bears mentioning that Image for Windows will *not* let you safely
| image the Windows partition while you are booted into Windows. This
| isn't a bug; the software just isn't designed for that.
|
| To do the job right, you will either have to dual boot and image from
| the alternate OS environment, use Image for DOS (which is included when
| Image for Windows is purchased), or use BootIt NG.
|
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| Reliable partitioning and imaging: <http://www.bootitng.com>
| Windows: What STOP code would you like to see today?
|
|
 
djs said:
I'm obviously a believer in TeraByte Unlimited's software, but it very
much bears mentioning that Image for Windows will *not* let you safely
image the Windows partition while you are booted into Windows. This
isn't a bug; the software just isn't designed for that.
Click to expand...

Very little imaging software is designed to handle changes going on
under its feet in the partition it is trying to back up. But Image for
Windows *will* do it, provided you set MSConfig to inhibit the 'startup
group' and reboot, so that nothing else at all is running. Or use the
Image for DOS - or BootIT NG, theboot/partition manager from the same
source
 
I will differ with you on that. My OS is on C, and I image it (C) directly from the OS while doing other things. From the Acronis web site; "
a.. Create and restore disk images in Windows - no need to reboot to DOS even when backing up system partition
b.. Unique technology that allows you to continue to work in Windows while imaging your hard disk drive
c.. Extremely easy to use Windows XP-like wizard-driven interface "
and it does exactly that.


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Just my 2¢ worth
Jeff
__________in response to__________
| x-no-archive: yes
|
| Thanks, I know. But it's not designed to image the partition that
| represents the OS environment currently booted into.
|
 
x-no-archive: yes

My apologies--I read your words "True Image", but my brain fart
interpreted it as "Image for Windows". A totally different product.
You're right about True Image, of course. Oops. :/
 
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