Best way to back up an entire disk?
Friday, April 23, 2004 by Stockholm Syndrome | Discussion: WinCustomize Talk
Heya I figured this was as good a place to ask as any. 
I got my tax refund and was FINALLY able to get a new drive to replace my 14 gig C drive. >
It should be here in a few days. http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=22-144-122&depa=0
Anyway I have XP Home and I really want to be able to back up as much of the disk as possible , then reinstall XP Home to the new disk and restore an image. I''ve never tried to do this before. I have Acronis TrueImage http://www.acronis.com/products/trueimage/ and a DVD burner, I have Nero 6 too but I don''t see it having any backup tools. Also there''s a Windows migration wizard but I don''t think it will migrate things like my WB skins!
Anyway how would you image/restore a whole disk?
TIA
I got my tax refund and was FINALLY able to get a new drive to replace my 14 gig C drive. >
It should be here in a few days. http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=22-144-122&depa=0Anyway I have XP Home and I really want to be able to back up as much of the disk as possible , then reinstall XP Home to the new disk and restore an image. I''ve never tried to do this before. I have Acronis TrueImage http://www.acronis.com/products/trueimage/ and a DVD burner, I have Nero 6 too but I don''t see it having any backup tools. Also there''s a Windows migration wizard but I don''t think it will migrate things like my WB skins!
Anyway how would you image/restore a whole disk? TIA
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DesignCaddy
Reply #22 Saturday, May 1, 2004 5:22 PM
Reply #22 Saturday, May 1, 2004 5:22 PM
best way to back up a drive is to move the whole thing on to another drive.
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Reply #21 Friday, April 30, 2004 7:49 PM
I always do a full image (in CD size segments) to a file with todays date and delete older ones. I then burn those segments to a DVD if I want to, 6 fit on a DVD.
I tried incremental backups once, but if you delete temp files and the like, tends to increase the size of the incremental.