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You could try something like nortons ghost software, which will let you
"ghost" an entire machines software including the OS........its about $70.
http://www.ghostsoft.com/sabu/ghost/ghost_personal/
giles.
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From: Romeyn Prescott [mailto:prescor[at]potsdam.edu]
Sent: Friday, November 24, 2000 1:01 AM
To: winmac@iffy.com
Subject: [WinMac] How to back up Windows?
In my job I do a fair amount of data transferral from an old machine
to its replacement. I like to be conservative about this and copy
EVERYTHING from a user's previous drive just in case we miss
something whilst picking through the data to get transferred to the
new machine. On Macs I do this one of three ways:
- I just drag the hard drive icon to an external/network drive and
everything gets copied.
- I use Disc Copy.
- I use Retrospect.
All of these are easy because with older Macs it's a piece of cake to
just slap an external drive on and copy away.
Unless I'm missing something, there are two major obstacles to doing
the same thing with Windows:
1) It's not so easy to just slap an external drive on an older (pre-USB) PC
2) Windows won't let you copy the currently in-use OS like Macs do.
What can anyone recommend as a way to do the same thing with Windows
as I am able to do with Macs? Given how small old drives were and
how LARGE today's drives are in comparison, what we typically will do
is compress the resultant drive image, burn a copy to CD, and stick a
copy in the user's System Folder for posterity. (We don't usually
tell them it's there, but it has proven quite handy when they call us
in a panic.)
TIA,
...ROMeyn
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