Hi Jack, Two points...
1. Creating an image of your running system is a good solution, but never forget : it allow you to restore the whole working system, but on the same or similar computer... when you need to move to a new system (another hardware / another OS), you should reinstall from scratch your apps and reconfigure from scratch, only restoring datas.... there's of course a lot of "solutions" allowing you to (partly) restore settings, but you would have a much better system if you do not try to adapt your old settings on the new system, but directly adapt your datas for the new settings of the new system. 2. You may migrate a fat partition to NTFS without the need to reformat and thus without loosing the datas on it... have a look at "convert.exe" commandline utility.... what you need to know before : if you convert your USB HDD to NTFS it could not be used anymore on something else than Windows... it means you cannot use it anymore to connect to a PS3, DVD Player, TV, Photo Frame, audio car system,... and it could be much more difficult to revert to FAT than converting to NTFS, as windows itself does not allow natively to FAT32 format a partition bigger than 32GB... Le mardi 20 juillet 2010 à 14:37:47, vous écriviez : > In light of your obviously superior knowledge of Windows, I'd like to ask > what you think of it's ability to create an "image" of whatever computer it's > running on. I discovered this ability of the 64 bit OS when I was setting up > the backup routine on the new machine. I'm pretty sure this ability didn't > exist in the 32 bit version. Unfortunately, the USB HDD I'm using for backup > is currently formatted as FAT32 and must be formatted to NTSF in order for > the "image" to be created. As soon as I am comfortable that I have a good > Carbonite backup I'm going to re-format the USB HDD to NTSF and try to create > an "image" of this new machine. -- Cordialement, Stephane courrier : antarex (AT) freenet (DOT) be ________________________________________________ Current version is 4.2.23 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
