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Doc
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Posted: Wed Nov 17, 2004 2:46 am    Post subject: how to back up windows, not the whole drive? Reply with quote
How could I backup windows XP so that I could restore it to the exact
settings I have in place without having to backup the entire drive?

Thanks
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Peter
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Posted: Wed Nov 17, 2004 4:24 am    Post subject: Re: how to back up windows, not the whole drive? Reply with quote
It all depends what you mean by "exact settings".

"Doc" <docsavage20@REMOVEhotmail.com> wrote in message
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How could I backup windows XP so that I could restore it to the exact
settings I have in place without having to backup the entire drive?

Thanks

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Doc
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Posted: Wed Nov 17, 2004 5:42 am    Post subject: Re: how to back up windows, not the whole drive? Reply with quote
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It all depends what you mean by "exact settings".

In other words, Windows crashes. Instead of using the install disc, just
wipe the drive and recopy the backup of windows back to the drive.
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Jo
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Posted: Wed Nov 17, 2004 5:48 am    Post subject: Re: how to back up windows, not the whole drive? Reply with quote
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wipe the drive and recopy the backup of windows back to the drive.


Sounds feasible. Shame about the user settings, user data and
applications that would be lost though.
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Peter
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Posted: Wed Nov 17, 2004 7:34 am    Post subject: Re: how to back up windows, not the whole drive? Reply with quote
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In other words, Windows crashes. Instead of using the install disc, just
wipe the drive and recopy the backup of windows back to the drive.

Think differently. Install Windows on empty hard drive, perform basic
configuration. Take a disk image and store it on medium from which you could
easily restore it. Test restore. Done.
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Doc
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Posted: Wed Nov 17, 2004 7:52 am    Post subject: Re: how to back up windows, not the whole drive? Reply with quote
"Peter" <peterfoxghost@yahoo.ca> wrote in message
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In other words, Windows crashes. Instead of using the install disc, just
wipe the drive and recopy the backup of windows back to the drive.

Think differently. Install Windows on empty hard drive, perform basic
configuration. Take a disk image and store it on medium from which you
could
easily restore it. Test restore. Done.

What's the difference between a disc image and backing up the harddrive?
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Peter
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Posted: Wed Nov 17, 2004 8:28 am    Post subject: Re: how to back up windows, not the whole drive? Reply with quote
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What's the difference between a disc image and backing up the harddrive?

What difference aspect are you interested in?
Backup is a broad term to duplicate selected portions of your file system to
another storage media.
Disk image reduces selection criteria to a disk as a whole. It preserves
file system properties.
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Andy Lee
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Posted: Wed Nov 17, 2004 6:09 pm    Post subject: Re: how to back up windows, not the whole drive? Reply with quote
On Tue, 16 Nov 2004 21:46:12 GMT, "Doc"
<docsavage20@REMOVEhotmail.com> wrote:

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How could I backup windows XP so that I could restore it to the exact
settings I have in place without having to backup the entire drive?

Thanks



Use ghost to create an image of the partition instead of the whole
drive if XP goes dead the just use ghost to restore the partion
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J. Clarke
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Posted: Wed Nov 17, 2004 7:22 pm    Post subject: Re: how to back up windows, not the whole drive? Reply with quote
Peter wrote:

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What's the difference between a disc image and backing up the harddrive?

What difference aspect are you interested in?
Backup is a broad term to duplicate selected portions of your file system
to another storage media.
Disk image reduces selection criteria to a disk as a whole. It preserves
file system properties.

Actually, the latest and greatest enterprise solution from Symantec (which
is what I suspect they were _really_ after when then bought out PowerQuest)
can do incremental images, just imaging the parts that were changed since
the previous image.

--
--John
Reply to jclarke at ae tee tee global dot net
(was jclarke at eye bee em dot net)
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AnilG
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Posted: Thu Nov 18, 2004 11:00 pm    Post subject: Re: how to back up windows, not the whole drive? Reply with quote
Start out with System Preparation (Sysprep) tool included in Windows XP.

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How could I backup windows XP so that I could restore it to the exact
settings I have in place without having to backup the entire drive?

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Con Shea
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Posted: Tue Nov 30, 2004 4:24 pm    Post subject: Re: how to back up windows, not the whole drive? Reply with quote
Find a spare partition on the existing drive or a second drive, install
XP on it. Then boot to the new XP. Run the built-in backup program to
back up your old XP files to a .bkf file. Restore later to the exact
same settings.

This is completely free. No need to spend money on imaging software.

..cs

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How could I backup windows XP so that I could restore it to the exact
settings I have in place without having to backup the entire drive?

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