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Restore back up from another drive
Name: Jay Date: October 8, 2001 at 20:41:32 Pacific
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Recently had Master C drive fail. Had back up copy on slave D drive which I use for storage. I could not figure out how to restore that copy onto a new hard drive. Since I lost Win 98 installed on C, D wouldn't boot up. I ended up doing a new install on C so the back up copy was a waste of space. What could I have done differently?
get norton ghost and back it up to d: or other harddrive clone software.
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Response Number 2
Name: yes Date: October 8, 2001 at 21:01:59 Pacific
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You found the main problem with system backups. You need a running Windows system to restore Windows. Post #1 is correct. You need a program that restores from Dos like Ghost or Drive Image.
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Response Number 3
Name: Lou Date: October 8, 2001 at 21:15:24 Pacific
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Why not just swap the cables? D: becomes c: and we're done.
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Response Number 4
Name: jay Date: October 9, 2001 at 11:52:39 Pacific
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Because Windows is on C. How do you restore back up if you can't get the computer to start up?
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Response Number 5
Name: Joe Date: October 9, 2001 at 14:01:49 Pacific
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Here's another vote for Norton Ghost
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Response Number 6
Name: sit Date: October 9, 2001 at 14:28:13 Pacific
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When you do a back up on D drive, first set your virtual memory on control panel, system, performance to 0. windows will tell you it will not run, but do it and reboot. Then use DOS and copy c: and all its sub directories to d:. This will make a mirror image which will boot if D is a separate drive. If D is on the same drive as C, then you will need to set up a dual boot system so you can use the boot sector for both like you were using two operating systems. Then reboot and set your virtual memory to 1.5 times your system memory. Now you can copy and paste new files to d: and will have a complete backup ready to go. If you can afford it, the best answer is to have a complete separate disk running as d:. Hope this helps.
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Response Number 7
Name: Lou Date: October 9, 2001 at 21:43:48 Pacific
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I read Jay's statement "Had back up copy on slave D drive "... to mean that windows was also backed up. My mistake.
Assuming that windows is on drive D, would swapping the cables work?
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