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| 871913 | 2010-04-02 02:43:00 | My computer runs WinXP. It has two internal drives ; Drive C (320 GB) and Drive X (640GB). Drive X is used to backup Documents and Settings; and some emails. Widows program is on Drive C but if this drive fails I assume Drive X will not be able to be read as it does not have Windows. I am considering copying Windows to Drive X to overcome this problem should Drive C fail. Does anyone see a problem with doing this? | Roly Duff (5149) | ||
| 871914 | 2010-04-02 02:50:00 | So is this one physical drive with two partitions or two physical drives with one partition each? | Sweep (90) | ||
| 871915 | 2010-04-02 02:51:00 | No. Get an imaging program Like Ghost or Paragon or such, there are some free ones too - make an image of C: and store it on the other drive. If C: dies, put a new drive in, and re-image back to it. Way easy. | pctek (84) | ||
| 871916 | 2010-04-02 03:46:00 | So is this one physical drive with two partitions or two physical drives with one partition each? It is two physical drives. I am not sure about the number of partions. I always though that there would be more than one though. |
Roly Duff (5149) | ||
| 871917 | 2010-04-02 03:54:00 | The reason I asked is that if it was one drive with two partitions a disk failure would take both partitions out. As pctek advised it would be best to image C: with the likes of diskwizard from Seagate. |
Sweep (90) | ||
| 871918 | 2010-04-02 05:50:00 | [QUOTE=Sweep;891618]The reason I asked is that if it was one drive with two partitions a disk failure would take both partitions out. As pctek advised it would be best to image C: with the likes of diskwizard from Seagate.[/QUOTE All I want to do is to use Drive X if Drive C fails. As Windows is on Drive C I imagine that Drive X will be inoperable. Is it not possible to simple copy and paste Windows on to Drive X? |
Roly Duff (5149) | ||
| 871919 | 2010-04-02 05:51:00 | All I want to do is to use Drive X if Drive C fails. As Windows is on Drive C I imagine that Drive X will be inoperable. Is it not possible to simple copy and paste Windows on to Drive X? | Roly Duff (5149) | ||
| 871920 | 2010-04-02 05:55:00 | Well if you copy and paste Windows drive X will not be bootable but if you image C: it will be. | Sweep (90) | ||
| 871921 | 2010-04-02 06:02:00 | A simple image might not be bootable, for that you would have to clone the drive But then they would probably conflict as in effect you would have 2 C drives. What you are trying to achieve is something like a mirror RAID. Your best bet is what PCTek said image to X then if C fails restore the image from X to a new HDD |
gary67 (56) | ||
| 871922 | 2010-04-02 06:13:00 | Just to throw another bit of confusion : Its not that good an idea to have backups in the same PC - you would be a lot safer doing them to an external source. Two reasons why, and I have personally seen these many time, esp the 1st if you have a problem power wise with the PC, and you suddenly put 240 Volts through the components, or some thing else blows, both internal drives can be destroyed if someone stole the PC-- the backups are gone as well In either case - all backups will have been for nothing. It does happen, the first example I had a business last year have that exact thing happen - Thought they were doing the "right thing" - Years worth of data & backups all gone in a second. What PCtek suggested is the best idea, make an image of drive C, save it someplace either on X or somewhere else ( refer back to example though) then if C fails you simply image it back. One of the programs mentioned, Paragon Back up and recovery (www.paragon-software.com) works well. Makes two files, both required for the image, but boot from the bootable CD you can make, aim it at the image, and recover. |
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