Backup WinXP Partion to Seagate HDD

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namniar

Question:
My Primary HDD is partitioned to C: (WinXP bootdrive and program files) 60
GB and D: (Data,Games, etc) 100 GB. Can just the boot partition (60GB) be
copied to a seperate harddisk (ie 60 GB Seagate) or would I have to copy the
primary HDD (160GB) to another 160GB drive or larger??

Would this be Seagate's Diskwizard? Or would I be better off with Norton
Ghost et al.?

Is just backing up the 60 GB even possible to another 60 GB HDD?

Thankyou, r.
 
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Guest

If you Ghost the C Drive to another partition on separate drive, the image
file will be <50% of the size of the C Drive as it is compressed. Thus if
your 60Gb drive has 40Gb used; then Ghost will create an image file of <20Gb
in size.

There are other 'backup' programs that you can purchase at huge cost
compared with Ghost, however one this is the best and most cost effective
solution for users with one to 15 PCs: my humble opinion.
 
N

namniar

Thanks for your reply BAR.

Looking at Symantecs website I can't tell if I can Ghost the C drive
partition only (ie 60 GB) to a separate HDD. This versus 'Ghosting' the
entire 160 GB drive (partition C and D). Is this correct?

r.
 
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Thomas Wendell

I'm not sure of Ghost, but at least Drive Image (2002) gave you the choice
what drives/partitions you wanted to make an image of. And I guess that
choice is in Ghost to, at least the latest ones.

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namniar

Thank you.

r.

Thomas Wendell said:
I'm not sure of Ghost, but at least Drive Image (2002) gave you the choice
what drives/partitions you wanted to make an image of. And I guess that
choice is in Ghost to, at least the latest ones.

--
Tumppi
Reply to group
=================================================
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Helsinki, Finland (remove _NOSPAM)
(translations from FI/SE not always accurate)
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