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Backing it all up
Having three C drive failures in just two and a half years requiring me to
reinstall and re-set up every program I use (which I'm doing now) makes me wonder if it's possible to copy/backup my entire new C drive to a comparable slave for switching out when this new primary master also goes belly-up down the road. I've replaced enough internal hard drives now to know how to switch them and their jumper pins so the mechanics aren't a problem. But will this duplicating idea work to give me a fresh bootable functioning Windows et al with a minimum of trouble? My thanks in advance for your experience and insight. calamity carol |
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BootIt NG will do what you want for free. www.bootitng.com. Download the
executable, run it to create a bootable installation floppy or CD, boot to that (after installing the drive), CANCEL the installation, then use Partition Work to Copy your C:\ partition to the backup drive. -- Gary S. Terhune MS-MVP Shell/User www.grystmill.com "caroloyl" wrote in message ... Having three C drive failures in just two and a half years requiring me to reinstall and re-set up every program I use (which I'm doing now) makes me wonder if it's possible to copy/backup my entire new C drive to a comparable slave for switching out when this new primary master also goes belly-up down the road. I've replaced enough internal hard drives now to know how to switch them and their jumper pins so the mechanics aren't a problem. But will this duplicating idea work to give me a fresh bootable functioning Windows et al with a minimum of trouble? My thanks in advance for your experience and insight. calamity carol |
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I should mention that a better solution is to get an external HD, and use a
decent backup program, like Acronis True Image, to make regular images of your system to the external drive. Then all you have to do if the drive goes bad is to install a new one and use the bootable CD method to restore the latest image to the new drive. That way *everything* you've done on the old drive, up to the date of the latest image, including tweaks and personal data, is restored to the new drive, bootable and all. -- Gary S. Terhune MS-MVP Shell/User www.grystmill.com "Gary S. Terhune" none wrote in message ... BootIt NG will do what you want for free. www.bootitng.com. Download the executable, run it to create a bootable installation floppy or CD, boot to that (after installing the drive), CANCEL the installation, then use Partition Work to Copy your C:\ partition to the backup drive. -- Gary S. Terhune MS-MVP Shell/User www.grystmill.com "caroloyl" wrote in message ... Having three C drive failures in just two and a half years requiring me to reinstall and re-set up every program I use (which I'm doing now) makes me wonder if it's possible to copy/backup my entire new C drive to a comparable slave for switching out when this new primary master also goes belly-up down the road. I've replaced enough internal hard drives now to know how to switch them and their jumper pins so the mechanics aren't a problem. But will this duplicating idea work to give me a fresh bootable functioning Windows et al with a minimum of trouble? My thanks in advance for your experience and insight. calamity carol |
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+1 on Gary's suggestion. I use Acronis, backing up to an internal HD. My
primary is actually a RAID 0, but, I have 5 HD's in this machine. If one craps out, I can restore to another and replace at my liesure. The nice part about an external HD is that you can keep it in a safe place away from your machine....in the event of a theft or fire, etc. Acronis True Image is a great program, I highly recommend it. Heirloom, old and do have backups "Gary S. Terhune" none wrote in message ... I should mention that a better solution is to get an external HD, and use a decent backup program, like Acronis True Image, to make regular images of your system to the external drive. Then all you have to do if the drive goes bad is to install a new one and use the bootable CD method to restore the latest image to the new drive. That way *everything* you've done on the old drive, up to the date of the latest image, including tweaks and personal data, is restored to the new drive, bootable and all. -- Gary S. Terhune MS-MVP Shell/User www.grystmill.com "Gary S. Terhune" none wrote in message ... BootIt NG will do what you want for free. www.bootitng.com. Download the executable, run it to create a bootable installation floppy or CD, boot to that (after installing the drive), CANCEL the installation, then use Partition Work to Copy your C:\ partition to the backup drive. -- Gary S. Terhune MS-MVP Shell/User www.grystmill.com "caroloyl" wrote in message ... Having three C drive failures in just two and a half years requiring me to reinstall and re-set up every program I use (which I'm doing now) makes me wonder if it's possible to copy/backup my entire new C drive to a comparable slave for switching out when this new primary master also goes belly-up down the road. I've replaced enough internal hard drives now to know how to switch them and their jumper pins so the mechanics aren't a problem. But will this duplicating idea work to give me a fresh bootable functioning Windows et al with a minimum of trouble? My thanks in advance for your experience and insight. calamity carol |
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May as well add that an even more perfect solution is to have TWO external
drives dedicated to backup, swapping them every week and storing the disconnected one offsite. This can either be two complete external drives, or two drives using one external enclosure (former is easier, latter is cheaper.) -- Gary S. Terhune MS-MVP Shell/User www.grystmill.com "Heirloom" wrote in message ... +1 on Gary's suggestion. I use Acronis, backing up to an internal HD. My primary is actually a RAID 0, but, I have 5 HD's in this machine. If one craps out, I can restore to another and replace at my liesure. The nice part about an external HD is that you can keep it in a safe place away from your machine....in the event of a theft or fire, etc. Acronis True Image is a great program, I highly recommend it. Heirloom, old and do have backups "Gary S. Terhune" none wrote in message ... I should mention that a better solution is to get an external HD, and use a decent backup program, like Acronis True Image, to make regular images of your system to the external drive. Then all you have to do if the drive goes bad is to install a new one and use the bootable CD method to restore the latest image to the new drive. That way *everything* you've done on the old drive, up to the date of the latest image, including tweaks and personal data, is restored to the new drive, bootable and all. -- Gary S. Terhune MS-MVP Shell/User www.grystmill.com "Gary S. Terhune" none wrote in message ... BootIt NG will do what you want for free. www.bootitng.com. Download the executable, run it to create a bootable installation floppy or CD, boot to that (after installing the drive), CANCEL the installation, then use Partition Work to Copy your C:\ partition to the backup drive. -- Gary S. Terhune MS-MVP Shell/User www.grystmill.com "caroloyl" wrote in message ... Having three C drive failures in just two and a half years requiring me to reinstall and re-set up every program I use (which I'm doing now) makes me wonder if it's possible to copy/backup my entire new C drive to a comparable slave for switching out when this new primary master also goes belly-up down the road. I've replaced enough internal hard drives now to know how to switch them and their jumper pins so the mechanics aren't a problem. But will this duplicating idea work to give me a fresh bootable functioning Windows et al with a minimum of trouble? My thanks in advance for your experience and insight. calamity carol |
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Well, if you are going that far...........you may as well add having a web
based backup (if you trust it, I don't). Heirloom, old and don't trust anything "Gary S. Terhune" none wrote in message ... May as well add that an even more perfect solution is to have TWO external drives dedicated to backup, swapping them every week and storing the disconnected one offsite. This can either be two complete external drives, or two drives using one external enclosure (former is easier, latter is cheaper.) -- Gary S. Terhune MS-MVP Shell/User www.grystmill.com "Heirloom" wrote in message ... +1 on Gary's suggestion. I use Acronis, backing up to an internal HD. My primary is actually a RAID 0, but, I have 5 HD's in this machine. If one craps out, I can restore to another and replace at my liesure. The nice part about an external HD is that you can keep it in a safe place away from your machine....in the event of a theft or fire, etc. Acronis True Image is a great program, I highly recommend it. Heirloom, old and do have backups "Gary S. Terhune" none wrote in message ... I should mention that a better solution is to get an external HD, and use a decent backup program, like Acronis True Image, to make regular images of your system to the external drive. Then all you have to do if the drive goes bad is to install a new one and use the bootable CD method to restore the latest image to the new drive. That way *everything* you've done on the old drive, up to the date of the latest image, including tweaks and personal data, is restored to the new drive, bootable and all. -- Gary S. Terhune MS-MVP Shell/User www.grystmill.com "Gary S. Terhune" none wrote in message ... BootIt NG will do what you want for free. www.bootitng.com. Download the executable, run it to create a bootable installation floppy or CD, boot to that (after installing the drive), CANCEL the installation, then use Partition Work to Copy your C:\ partition to the backup drive. -- Gary S. Terhune MS-MVP Shell/User www.grystmill.com "caroloyl" wrote in message ... Having three C drive failures in just two and a half years requiring me to reinstall and re-set up every program I use (which I'm doing now) makes me wonder if it's possible to copy/backup my entire new C drive to a comparable slave for switching out when this new primary master also goes belly-up down the road. I've replaced enough internal hard drives now to know how to switch them and their jumper pins so the mechanics aren't a problem. But will this duplicating idea work to give me a fresh bootable functioning Windows et al with a minimum of trouble? My thanks in advance for your experience and insight. calamity carol |
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Too slow, too insecure.
-- Gary S. Terhune MS-MVP Shell/User www.grystmill.com "Heirloom" wrote in message ... Well, if you are going that far...........you may as well add having a web based backup (if you trust it, I don't). Heirloom, old and don't trust anything "Gary S. Terhune" none wrote in message ... May as well add that an even more perfect solution is to have TWO external drives dedicated to backup, swapping them every week and storing the disconnected one offsite. This can either be two complete external drives, or two drives using one external enclosure (former is easier, latter is cheaper.) -- Gary S. Terhune MS-MVP Shell/User www.grystmill.com "Heirloom" wrote in message ... +1 on Gary's suggestion. I use Acronis, backing up to an internal HD. My primary is actually a RAID 0, but, I have 5 HD's in this machine. If one craps out, I can restore to another and replace at my liesure. The nice part about an external HD is that you can keep it in a safe place away from your machine....in the event of a theft or fire, etc. Acronis True Image is a great program, I highly recommend it. Heirloom, old and do have backups "Gary S. Terhune" none wrote in message ... I should mention that a better solution is to get an external HD, and use a decent backup program, like Acronis True Image, to make regular images of your system to the external drive. Then all you have to do if the drive goes bad is to install a new one and use the bootable CD method to restore the latest image to the new drive. That way *everything* you've done on the old drive, up to the date of the latest image, including tweaks and personal data, is restored to the new drive, bootable and all. -- Gary S. Terhune MS-MVP Shell/User www.grystmill.com "Gary S. Terhune" none wrote in message ... BootIt NG will do what you want for free. www.bootitng.com. Download the executable, run it to create a bootable installation floppy or CD, boot to that (after installing the drive), CANCEL the installation, then use Partition Work to Copy your C:\ partition to the backup drive. -- Gary S. Terhune MS-MVP Shell/User www.grystmill.com "caroloyl" wrote in message ... Having three C drive failures in just two and a half years requiring me to reinstall and re-set up every program I use (which I'm doing now) makes me wonder if it's possible to copy/backup my entire new C drive to a comparable slave for switching out when this new primary master also goes belly-up down the road. I've replaced enough internal hard drives now to know how to switch them and their jumper pins so the mechanics aren't a problem. But will this duplicating idea work to give me a fresh bootable functioning Windows et al with a minimum of trouble? My thanks in advance for your experience and insight. calamity carol |
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"Heirloom" wrote in message ... Well, if you are going that far...........you may as well add having a web based backup (if you trust it, I don't). Heirloom, old and don't trust anything Off site is a fine solution. A company may choose to have an IT user, who has to be trusted with data access, take home the backup media every night. For your home backup, if moving a backup physically to an offsite location daily is not feasible, at least move one to a "fire safe" lockbox. I'd be concerned about speed and security issues with web based. |
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Eric: I'd be concerned about speed and security issues with web based.
Gary: Too slow, too insecure. My point exactly....... Heirloom, old and trust is important "Eric" wrote in message ... "Heirloom" wrote in message ... Well, if you are going that far...........you may as well add having a web based backup (if you trust it, I don't). Heirloom, old and don't trust anything Off site is a fine solution. A company may choose to have an IT user, who has to be trusted with data access, take home the backup media every night. For your home backup, if moving a backup physically to an offsite location daily is not feasible, at least move one to a "fire safe" lockbox. I'd be concerned about speed and security issues with web based. |
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Hey I've only just been able to get my first external never mind getting
two g although saying that it would be nice to have another and it would have been nice to get one with a bigger capacity, it's 80 GB but as it was a birthday present I can't complain g I use it with Acronis TI 10. Joan Gary S. Terhune wrote: May as well add that an even more perfect solution is to have TWO external drives dedicated to backup, swapping them every week and storing the disconnected one offsite. This can either be two complete external drives, or two drives using one external enclosure (former is easier, latter is cheaper.) |
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