[pchelpers] Re: Moving Files and Licenses

    Scott, I got the impression that you could backup everything 
including files and settings.  Do all these things have to be 
selected individually?
    Is it possibly to back up the entire C: drive using this 
tool?  Will it compress the data into a single file etc.?
    Still not sure how to use it. When I bring it up and 
basically tell it to save everything the size of the file it 
builds is only about 80 Megs which certainly is not everything 
on the C: drive, even though the computer is new and everything 
has not yet been installed.

    Cy

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Scott McNay" <wizard@xxxxxxxx>
To: "Cyril Halbach" <pchelpers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, October 27, 2004 12:38 AM
Subject: [pchelpers] Re: Moving Files and Licenses


>
> Hi Cyril,

> Tuesday, October 26, 2004, 10:39:25 PM, you wrote:
> As far as I know (for what it's worth), you can run it 
> multiple times;
> I would assume that you can use it as a backup mechanism if 
> you wanted
> to.

> It creates files that will fit on whatever media you use, up 
> to 2G in
> size (if stored on a hard drive). On my system, it took 12 
> minutes to
> create 2 files, one 2G in size, and the other just a hair 
> under that.
> That's not, of course, everything on my hard drives, and not 
> even
> everything on C:, so don't burn your bridges and be sure to 
> check in
> folders other than \Documents and Settings, for stuff that you 
> want to
> keep.

> If you have enough data, you might want to see about hooking 
> up the
> old drive to the new system, and copying the resulting file(s) 
> that
> way, instead of by floppy. If you decide to go ahead and use 
> floppies,
> you might want to go through your documents and toss anything 
> large
> that you don't want to keep.

> --Scott.

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