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A few postings down revealed the sad loss of Grant Dixon’s hard drive. At least I assume that it had gone to that great PC in the sky and was not merely lost under the Gigabytes of data.
Most of us are aware of backing up our images and other data but how many of us actually consider backing up our OS, Programs, Service Packs and Updates. Recreating a hard drive can take days.
On my setup I have two hard drives. The second one is an identical copy of the first. You can do this with programs such as Maxblast from Maxtor. Powerquest (Symantec) have similar programs which can create a single file which is an exact image of your whole drive.
Using this it takes just a few minutes to switch to the other drive to boot. The only loss is that data which was created since the last backup.
Colin
Most of us are aware of backing up our images and other data but how many of us actually consider backing up our OS, Programs, Service Packs and Updates. Recreating a hard drive can take days.
On my setup I have two hard drives. The second one is an identical copy of the first. You can do this with programs such as Maxblast from Maxtor. Powerquest (Symantec) have similar programs which can create a single file which is an exact image of your whole drive.
Using this it takes just a few minutes to switch to the other drive to boot. The only loss is that data which was created since the last backup.
Colin
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