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backup prior to sp2
Name: ryanmech Date: December 19, 2004 at 10:22:22 Pacific OS: xp-pro/sp1 CPU/Ram: p4/3.2gHz/1g
Comment:
I've decided to try sp2 again and I was trying to find a simple backup set for my docs and settings. I know sp2 will create a restore point, but the last time I tried this on this machine was just after I built it, and there was some incompatibility issue that caused me to reformat the hd. Back then all I had on the drive was XP and acrobat, now there's a lot more. Does anyone know if file and settings is the way to go, or should I go old school copy to disks(cd)?
Name: fordman Date: December 19, 2004 at 11:38:21 Pacific
Reply:
What do you mean? Can't you just do a backup of your computer with Microsoft's built in backup tool?
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Response Number 2
Name: teri Date: December 19, 2004 at 20:42:33 Pacific
Reply:
Image your drive. Norton Ghost or Drive Image (also Symantec) will do the job for you. If something goes wrong then just restore the image. Better that Microsoft backup, system restore or trying to back up to disks.
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