RE: [WinMac] Backing up a PC hard disk w/Retrospect (Mac).

John Hanks(jbh[at]biology.usu.edu)
Thu, 23 Dec 1999 09:25:41 -0700

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If you have remote clients and are already backing up the PC over the
network, then you can do a full backup of it, install the new drive and
install Windows into a temporary locationt (c:\wintmp for example) then
install the retrospect client and do a complete restore from the full backup
and snapshot you made. Reboot with the newly restored system and delete the
temp directory and you should be good to go. I think Dantz has a step by
step guide for this on theri website (www.dantz.com).

If you can get it, I recommend buying Norton SystemWorks Pro which includes
GhostPE (Personal Edition). You can make a boot disk with ghostpe on it, add
the new drive as a slave and ghost the old drive onto the new. Remove the
old and move the new to master and you'll be set. This approach works *very*
well for Windows NT as you can break through th 4 GB C drive barrier that
you get during a typical NT install.

jbh

John Hanks
System Administrator
Dept. of Biology
Utah State University

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brian Durant [mailto:pip207@inform.dk]
> Sent: Thursday, December 23, 1999 7:44 AM
> To: winmac@lists.best.com
> Subject: [WinMac] Backing up a PC hard disk w/Retrospect (Mac).
>
>
> Hi,
>
> I would like to backup a PC IDE hard disk (IBM Aptiva 2168)
> with Retrospect
> (Mac) so that I can put a larger hard disk on the PC and restore the
> contents to the new drive. I would do this with a Mac by
> booting off of my
> ZIP drive, but all I have for the PC is a floppy drive and a network
> connection to a Mac with a ZIP and/or a Jaz drive. Can this
> be done and how
> do I go about doing it (step by step)?
>
> Merry Xmas,
>
> Brian
>
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