[windows2000] Re: Backup
- From: "Chris McEvoy" <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2003 10:09:22 +0100
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> From: Chris Berry [mailto:compjma@xxxxxxxxxxx]=20
> Sent: Wednesday 04 June 2003 18:47
> To: windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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> >From: "Wayland Phillips" <wayland.phillips@xxxxxxxx> Over=20
> the past week=20
> >or so, I've been getting a lot of I/O errors on my home=20
> computer. I'm=20
> >thinking that my hard drive might be going down, but I'm not=20
> sure. If=20
> >it is crashing, this will be my first HD crash in 8 years.
> >There's obviously data I want to save before it crashes. I've got a=20
> >copy of Norton Systemworks on my machine, so I was thinking of using=20
> >Ghost. But I don't know if that is the best option at this point,=20
> >because if I understand Ghost correctly, I have to load the whole=20
> >image, and not just pieces I want to restore. (In case is a problem=20
> >with Windows and not the
> >HD.) And I don't think Microsoft Backup will let me burn=20
> the backup to=20
> >a CD, though I could be wrong. Any advice?
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> The easiest way is to just install a second hard drive and=20
> copy over the relevant information. If you don't like that=20
> solution you could use zipcentral and nero to backup your=20
> data to cd. No point in using the built in backup system=20
> since you don't care about system state.
You can use Backup to backup to a file, then burn it on to CD (but as
you're HD is screwed this might be a bad option!).
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