Brian
Sat May 24 04:40:33 PDT 2008
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> On Fri, 23 May 2008 16:30:19 -0400, "William B. Lurie"
> <billurie@nospam.net> wrote:
>
>>Good friend of mine got GHOST 9 and then found
>>out it isn't for WIN 98. He got GHOST 2003
>>with it, that is for 98. But I recall seeing
>>suggested here, other drive imaging and restoring
>>packages that people find preferable to the Norton/
>>Symantec stuff. Could I have a few suggestions?
>>(I used to use PowerQuests's Drive Image 6 but
>>found it unwieldy in that it required their original
>>CD to do a Restore). Thank you.
>
> Just curious why any software is needed to do a backup.
To create a simple backup, there isn't any need.
> I just copy the entire windows directory (and sub dirs) to another
> harddrive (a small one). The next time I backup, I copy it to yet
> another small harddrive. After that, I delete everything on the first
> backup and use that drive over again. It takes some cable swapping,
> but thats no biggie. I never put the cover on my computer anyhow.
And what happens when the MBR becomes corrupt or a sector or two or more get
toasted?
>
> A few weeks ago I had a major screwup in Windows. I plugged in the
> last backup harddrive, copied everything to c:\wind. Then I shut
> down, and from Dos, I renamed the windows dir to old_win, and wind to
> windows. When I rebooted I the copy was loading. Running that one, I
> was able to find the problem in the screwed up one, fixed it, and
> deleted the entire backup copy.
And what is the time it takes you to troubleshoot and fix the origination of
the problem which is the cause? The major backup/imaging applications will take
mere minutes to restore an OS and installed applications.
>
> I also copy program files, my email dir and a few other things when I
> backup.
>
> Note: When you backup windows, DO NOT copy the swap file, or your copy
> process will stop. Just SELECT ALL, then unselect the swap file. Then
> proceed to copy. There's a lot of software that people buy which is
> really not needed since it's built into windows already, and backup
> software is one of them.
Windows, all versions, do not have the capability of creating a sector x
sector copy, backup/imaging applications do.
>
> PS. to rename a dir from dos, I have an old dos utility called RENDIR.
> I have lots of the old dos utilities to do things that MS never put
> into dos.
>
Why? Using the command "ren" which is an MSDOS command works fine for
renaming a directory. What are these other "old dos utilities" you have that
MSDOS doesn't have?
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