I'm curious too. I've bought a disk to act as back-up for my boot disk.
I want to keep it off-line except for regular updates. I also want to be
able to simply plug it in in place of the existing boot disk if
something goes wrong.
Researching what inexpensive/free app will do that simply and reliably
has been tough. The product info never seems to address the question of
complete, swappable back-up.
I tried this with my last machine, creating a sector by sector clone.
However, when I tried swapping disks, Windoze still saw the new one as a
different drive number and I couldn't get it to boot from that drive.
Apparently, Windoze puts info on the nature and drive letter of drives
in a hidden place. At least XP did.
I keep all the files backed up, but failure of the primary would then
require booting from DVD, then restoring from the backup, far more
tedious. I haven't had a boot disk go south since the days of RLL run
length encoding, but would like to be covered.
Any help appreciated.
Moose
Chuck Norcutt wrote:
> And what tool do you use to clone your system disk?
>
> WayneS wrote:
>
>> ....
>>
>> I have taken to cloning my system disk and keeping it a backup.
>>
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