Backup Software

Hi,

My PC is acting up again. I would like to back up the disk before
doing surgery or it fails completely. What are some good back up
programs that will do a complete backup of the XP Pro OS so that
it can be reinstalled after with minimal fuss? I think this needs to
include the boot sector (true?) as well as XP's registry and so on. I
have a DVD burner (single layer) and an external disk available for
backup. XP's backup is adequate for most files but requires XP be
reinstalled - that I'd like to avoid.

Thanks,
Gary

"Gary Brown" <garyjbrown@charter.net> wrote in message
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> Hi,
>
> My PC is acting up again. I would like to back up the disk before
> doing surgery or it fails completely. What are some good back up
> programs that will do a complete backup of the XP Pro OS so that
> it can be reinstalled after with minimal fuss? I think this needs to
> include the boot sector (true?) as well as XP's registry and so on. I
> have a DVD burner (single layer) and an external disk available for
> backup. XP's backup is adequate for most files but requires XP be
> reinstalled - that I'd like to avoid.
>
> Thanks,
> Gary
>
>

Acronis True Image 9 does a nice job. It will create an image of your drive
onto an external hard drive, CD's and DVD's. Restoration back to one's hard
drive is straight forward and at least to me has shown itself to be
reliable. It will also clone disks and can be scheduled on a daily basis to
append the full image created of the hard drive.

--
Jan Alter
bearpuf@verizon.net
or
jalter@phila.k12.pa.us

"Jan Alter" <bearpuf@verizon.net> wrote in message
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> "Gary Brown" <garyjbrown@charter.net> wrote in message
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>> Hi,
>>
>> My PC is acting up again. I would like to back up the disk before
>> doing surgery or it fails completely. What are some good back up
>> programs that will do a complete backup of the XP Pro OS so that
>> it can be reinstalled after with minimal fuss? I think this needs to
>> include the boot sector (true?) as well as XP's registry and so on. I
>> have a DVD burner (single layer) and an external disk available for
>> backup. XP's backup is adequate for most files but requires XP be
>> reinstalled - that I'd like to avoid.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Gary
>>
>>
>
> Acronis True Image 9 does a nice job. It will create an image of your
> drive onto an external hard drive, CD's and DVD's. Restoration back to
> one's hard drive is straight forward and at least to me has shown itself
> to be reliable. It will also clone disks and can be scheduled on a daily
> basis to append the full image created of the hard drive.
>
> --
> Jan Alter
> bearpuf@verizon.net
> or
> jalter@phila.k12.pa.us
>

and the big plus with it is you can see the actual files, it lets you look
at them as a virtual drive..........which is nice.

On Fri, 04 Aug 2006 14:37:54 GMT, "Jan Alter" <bearpuf@verizon.net> wrote:

>"Gary Brown" <garyjbrown@charter.net> wrote in message
>news:loIAg.5$Ns7.4@fe02.lga...
>> Hi,
>>
>> My PC is acting up again. I would like to back up the disk before
>> doing surgery or it fails completely. What are some good back up
>> programs that will do a complete backup of the XP Pro OS so that
>> it can be reinstalled after with minimal fuss? I think this needs to
>> include the boot sector (true?) as well as XP's registry and so on. I
>> have a DVD burner (single layer) and an external disk available for
>> backup. XP's backup is adequate for most files but requires XP be
>> reinstalled - that I'd like to avoid.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Gary
>>
>>
>
>Acronis True Image 9 does a nice job. It will create an image of your drive
>onto an external hard drive, CD's and DVD's. Restoration back to one's hard
>drive is straight forward and at least to me has shown itself to be
>reliable. It will also clone disks and can be scheduled on a daily basis to
>append the full image created of the hard drive.

And it's head and shoulders above the bloated piece of crap that Ghost 10 has
become.

Gary Brown wrote:
> Hi,
>
> My PC is acting up again. I would like to back up the disk before
> doing surgery or it fails completely. What are some good back up
> programs that will do a complete backup of the XP Pro OS so that
> it can be reinstalled after with minimal fuss? I think this needs to
> include the boot sector (true?) as well as XP's registry and so on. I
> have a DVD burner (single layer) and an external disk available for
> backup. XP's backup is adequate for most files but requires XP be
> reinstalled - that I'd like to avoid.
>
> Thanks,
> Gary
>
>
Get Ghost2003 or equivalent,
get your new harddisk(greater than your old),
put it in as slave,
make a diskcopy with ghost(dont start xp),
put the new disk in as master,
and remove the old one,
Restart!!!!
Done.