Re: Hard Disk backup programs

  • From: Marijan Janev <janevm@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sun, 09 Nov 2008 10:24:25 +0100

Thanks Alan! It sounds very interesting for me. Until now I have used only Norton Ghost to make a image of my C: partition, but every time I needed a sighted help to make a restore.
I'll try casper for sure.

Alan Clendinen said the following on 09.11.2008 09:36:
Marijan,
 
It will depend on your hardware. If you create the clone of your main hard drive on a secondary internal hard drive, then all you need to do is have your BIOS configured to boot from that secondary hard drive. Since your clone will contain a copy of your Windows operating system, a copy of JAWS, and a copy of the Casper backup software, you would simply run the Casper program to copy everything from the secondary drive to your primary drive.
 
If you are backing up your primary hard drive to an external USB drive, the procedure is different, because Windows XP and Vista don't permit booting from an external USB hard drive.
 
Future Systems Solutions, the maker of Casper, have a work-around for this limitation. You can create a bootable CD which contains a copy of Windows and the Casper program. This will permit you to do a restore from an external USB, but you will not have any speech, since you are booting from a CD.
 
Alan

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