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Jo-Anne Naples
Thanks much, Fred! I'm about to order that program.
Jo-Anne
"Fred" <No Can Do@Lost.net> wrote in message
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> Acronis makes a boot CD for use with the Image Backups.
> Fred
>
>
> "Jo-Anne Naples" <naples@tbcnet.com> wrote in message
> news:OBNNVilxIHA.5472@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
>> Thank you, Peter! It looks like it's a good idea to create a boot CD as
>> well as having everything on the external drive.
>>
>> Jo-Anne
>>
>> "Peter A" <paitken@CRAP.nc.rr.com> wrote in message
>> news:MPG.22b063e374dc3be19897e4@msnews.microsoft.com...
>>> In article <u7n0IFexIHA.2292@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl>, naples@tbcnet.com
>>> says...
>>>> I use Windows XP, SP3, on a 5-year-old Dell desktop computer with USB2
>>>> ports
>>>> and a 60GB hard drive. I'm about to buy an external hard drive (or
>>>> maybe two
>>>> of them) for backing up, and I'm confused about whether there's a
>>>> difference
>>>> between cloning and imaging. I want to do a few different things and
>>>> wonder
>>>> if one software package would do it all or if I need more than one:
>>>>
>>>> * Back up or clone or image my internal hard drive to an external USB
>>>> drive
>>>> in such a way that I can recover everything easily if my internal drive
>>>> crashes. That is, I'd like to be able to boot from the backup and/or
>>>> copy it
>>>> to a new internal hard drive or a messed-up but functional old one so I
>>>> can
>>>> seamlessly start working again, without having to reload programs and
>>>> redo
>>>> my personal settings.
>>>>
>>>> * Be able to do regular incremental backups as well.
>>>>
>>>> * Be able to copy individual folders or files from the external drive
>>>> to the
>>>> internal one if I simply screw up something rather than crash
>>>> completely.
>>>>
>>>> So...does any single program do all of what I want? I've been looking
>>>> at
>>>> Acronis True Image and Casper 4 (at the suggestion of someone on one of
>>>> the
>>>> newsgroups) years ago I had Ghost but never actually used it.
>>>>
>>>> Thank you!
>>>>
>>>> Jo-Anne
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>> I can't speak about other programs for this task, but Ghost has a good
>>> reputation. I use it, although I have never needed to call on it for a
>>> system restore. It works by saving a "restore point" to a network or USB
>>> drive. I do this automatically once a week. You also create a boot CD.
>>> Then, if your hard drive goes loopy, you boot from the CD and perform a
>>> restore from the external drive.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Peter Aitken
>>> Author, MS Word for Medical and Technical Writers
>>> www.tech-word.com
>>
>>
>
>
Jo-Anne
"Fred" <No Can Do@Lost.net> wrote in message
news:%23lxq9TmxIHA.4376@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
> Acronis makes a boot CD for use with the Image Backups.
> Fred
>
>
> "Jo-Anne Naples" <naples@tbcnet.com> wrote in message
> news:OBNNVilxIHA.5472@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
>> Thank you, Peter! It looks like it's a good idea to create a boot CD as
>> well as having everything on the external drive.
>>
>> Jo-Anne
>>
>> "Peter A" <paitken@CRAP.nc.rr.com> wrote in message
>> news:MPG.22b063e374dc3be19897e4@msnews.microsoft.com...
>>> In article <u7n0IFexIHA.2292@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl>, naples@tbcnet.com
>>> says...
>>>> I use Windows XP, SP3, on a 5-year-old Dell desktop computer with USB2
>>>> ports
>>>> and a 60GB hard drive. I'm about to buy an external hard drive (or
>>>> maybe two
>>>> of them) for backing up, and I'm confused about whether there's a
>>>> difference
>>>> between cloning and imaging. I want to do a few different things and
>>>> wonder
>>>> if one software package would do it all or if I need more than one:
>>>>
>>>> * Back up or clone or image my internal hard drive to an external USB
>>>> drive
>>>> in such a way that I can recover everything easily if my internal drive
>>>> crashes. That is, I'd like to be able to boot from the backup and/or
>>>> copy it
>>>> to a new internal hard drive or a messed-up but functional old one so I
>>>> can
>>>> seamlessly start working again, without having to reload programs and
>>>> redo
>>>> my personal settings.
>>>>
>>>> * Be able to do regular incremental backups as well.
>>>>
>>>> * Be able to copy individual folders or files from the external drive
>>>> to the
>>>> internal one if I simply screw up something rather than crash
>>>> completely.
>>>>
>>>> So...does any single program do all of what I want? I've been looking
>>>> at
>>>> Acronis True Image and Casper 4 (at the suggestion of someone on one of
>>>> the
>>>> newsgroups) years ago I had Ghost but never actually used it.
>>>>
>>>> Thank you!
>>>>
>>>> Jo-Anne
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>> I can't speak about other programs for this task, but Ghost has a good
>>> reputation. I use it, although I have never needed to call on it for a
>>> system restore. It works by saving a "restore point" to a network or USB
>>> drive. I do this automatically once a week. You also create a boot CD.
>>> Then, if your hard drive goes loopy, you boot from the CD and perform a
>>> restore from the external drive.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Peter Aitken
>>> Author, MS Word for Medical and Technical Writers
>>> www.tech-word.com
>>
>>
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