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From: "FORC5" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "The Hardware List" <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, September 18, 2005 1:10 AM
Subject: Re: [H] Burning ISO Images and/or a Recovery CD or DVD.
yet to play with XpPe, guess I'm behind the power curve <:-|
I really do need to play there though
Acronis burns a file of my C Drive to the partition I select which is a
partition on a USB external hard drive. I have an Acronis bootable Recovery
CD that is supposed to set things up and execute the recovery process. This
should allow me to boot to a clean formatted C Drive and recover my image
(MyBackup.tib) from the partition I have it copied to on my external USB
hard drive.
I have 15 GB of data on my C Drive which is compressed to around 9 GB of
data in the MyBackup.tib file on my external hard drive. This would require
spanning at least 2 DVD's if I were to copy that data to DVD's. Spanning is
another risk factor. I have reached the conclusion it is by far best that I
keep things like they are and rely on my 9 GB MyBackup.tib file on my
external hard drive if I need to restore my C Drive. I realize that since it
is not a Ghost overwrite procedure, I will have to format the target C Drive
before I do the restoration.
The problem is you never get to see if this works unless you actually do the
procedure. I hope I never have to restore my C Drive. I guess I could unhook
my hard drive and hook up a different hard drive and restore my C Drive
image to that "test drive" and see what happens. In several past attempts to
Ghost a C Drive load from my computer's hard drive to another hard drive and
then boot into Windows from it, XP would not boot. I assume that Microsoft
has things rigged as to where if you change hard drives you must reinstall
Windows. I would not put it past them to be overly protective against
piracy.
Thanks for all the advice,
Chuck
