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Hey all,
I am looking for a good program that I can use to make copies of my
system that will only copy the data and not the whole hard drive.
I have used "Ghost", but that copies the whole drive and an 80 gig HD
is a lot to be coping.
Any suggestions are welcomed.

Dan (Still going in circles)
 
I would maybe change the setup to facilitate better or easier backups.
By segmenting data into non-XP partitions you can organize and then
backup more efficiently. You would want "Readable" backups of the
most important data (My Docs, Email stores...) Other things that take
up lots of space can be segmented as well My Pictures & Multimedia.
The side benefit is when a recovery of XP by an imaging program is
done, the personal data isn't affected. Personally, I image my XP disk
at least once a week. Music gets done less frequently and the personal
data may be backed up several times a week. Because each segment
is separate I can backup as needed. About backups, always keep at
least 2 iterations and for images be sure to use Verification when you
create them and then Burn the savesets to CD/DVD-R disks. If your
current drive has no unallocated space adding a second smaller drive
to hold personal data & Image sets is a good investment and would
probably help XP's performance.
 
skip said:
Hey all,
I am looking for a good program that I can use to make copies of my
system that will only copy the data and not the whole hard drive.
I have used "Ghost", but that copies the whole drive and an 80 gig HD
is a lot to be coping.
Any suggestions are welcomed.

Dan (Still going in circles)
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I use removable drive trays, $7.15 each. Slide in a spare in the drive D
position, boot from my Ghost 2003 dos floppy and instead of imaging I do a
drive copy, 17gb takes only 15 to 20 minutes.
 
skip said:
Hey all,
I am looking for a good program that I can use to make copies of my
system that will only copy the data and not the whole hard drive.
I have used "Ghost", but that copies the whole drive and an 80 gig HD
is a lot to be coping.
Any suggestions are welcomed.

Dan (Still going in circles)
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Check out the Files and Settings Transfer Wizard in Accessories -
System Tools. You can configure it to backup files only.

See the article by by MVP Gary Woodruff:
http://www.aumha.org/win5/a/fast.htm

Good luck

Ron Martell Duncan B.C. Canada
 
You're referring to cloning. On the target hard drive, this wipes any
current mbr, copies the source hard drive mbr, makes another partition(s),
formats, then copies the files to that/those location(s).

Imaging copies the mbr and partition information, then the files and folders
to a compressed version in file format. Restoring this to another hard
drive is usually much faster than cloning. Two step process though, imaging
then restoring.

Windows backup can do what you want except it saves it to its own specific
file format first, then you have to restore same on your target hard drive.
May have trouble with system files, personal files should be okay.

Drag and drop may may not work in windows explorer after the intial backup
XP is made. Only suggested for personal data files.

I make a cloned copy once a week, along with image copy to still another
physical hard drive. Important personal files also backed up on removable
and non removable media locations for additional insurance with windows
explorer copy command or 3rd party software using that data.
 
Hey all,
I am looking for a good program that I can use to make copies
of my
system that will only copy the data and not the whole hard
drive.
I have used "Ghost", but that copies the whole drive and an 80
gig HD
is a lot to be coping.
Any suggestions are welcomed.

Dan (Still going in circles)
Click to expand...

xcopy... perhaps...
 
Roxio version 7.5 does it very well indeed. It has special function
called backup to selectively backup what you want.

Version 8.0 is also out but haven't tried it yet. The beta was quite
promising.

hth
 
Acronis True Image works well in copying the whole drive or individual
backups. I can backup my whole drive in just a few minutes and the
incremental backups are even quicker.
Heirloom, old and like it
 
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