duplicate contents of boot drive

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I recently bought a Maxtor OneTouch I external hard drive with Retrospect 6.0
backup. If I duplicate the contents of the C: drive (boot), and at some point
have problems with the OS, is it workable to simply copy the duplicate copy
of the C: drive onto the C: drive. Only WinXP Home and installed programs are
in the C partition.

This is assuming that the drive will boot, but some nuance has stopped
functioning(like suddenly Rhapsody will crash the system when it is started).

Arne
 
Arne said:
I recently bought a Maxtor OneTouch I external hard drive with Retrospect 6.0
backup. If I duplicate the contents of the C: drive (boot), and at some point
have problems with the OS, is it workable to simply copy the duplicate copy
of the C: drive onto the C: drive. Only WinXP Home and installed programs are
in the C partition.

This is assuming that the drive will boot, but some nuance has stopped
functioning(like suddenly Rhapsody will crash the system when it is started).

Arne
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Your question "to simply copy the duplicate copy of the C: drive onto
the C: drive" is a little hard to understand.

I suspect you refer to imaging your drive C:. There are some nice
products to handle this sort of thing, e.g. Acronis TrueImage.
 
Retrospect 6.0 seems to copy every file and folder from the C: drive to the
backup drive. The duplication process is sufficient to be able to access the
copy on the backup drive as if using the file manager. However, simply
copying all of those files back to the original C drive while WinXP is
running may not work. What is different about imaging?

The system locked up one evening and now Rhapsody won't start. But now, also
the backup program will not complete its update catalog step without
crashing, so I don't trust the backup, either.

There is WinXP Repair or in place upgrade. Does that change my system ID?
 
Arne said:
Retrospect 6.0 seems to copy every file and folder from the C: drive to the
backup drive. The duplication process is sufficient to be able to access the
copy on the backup drive as if using the file manager. However, simply
copying all of those files back to the original C drive while WinXP is
running may not work. What is different about imaging?

The system locked up one evening and now Rhapsody won't start. But now, also
the backup program will not complete its update catalog step without
crashing, so I don't trust the backup, either.

There is WinXP Repair or in place upgrade. Does that change my system ID?
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WinXP Repair does not change you "system ID" (registration code).

Imaging creates a carbon copy of your hard disk. I prefer to do it
while Windows is not active, to ensure that I get the lot, warts and all.
 
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