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Number   :  7737
Date     :  2004-04-21
Author   :  John Zeman
Subject  :  Re: Help needed to clone hard disk
Size(KB) :  1


--- In xxcopy@yahoogroups.com, "djbrehon"  wrote:
> This is a repost; I hope no one minds.
> I'm looking for a little guidance from the knowledgeable people in
> this group, please. I have a new WinXP (home)
> laptop that I want to backup by cloning the C: drive to an external,
> bootable drive, just as I have always done with my old Win98SE
> desktop and xxcopy. Could someone please tell me what the best
> solution is? I've been reading some of the messages on this forum
> about XXClone and how easy it is to use, but I don't have a floppy
> drive on this laptop (at least, not yet). Is that a real problem?
> What about xxcopy? Can it make a bootable clone of an XP system? I
> was under the impression that it couldn't, but I've been seeing a
> few people say they've been making their backups with it. Perhaps
> they aren't making bootable clones? Thanks in advance for your 
input.
> Jill


This probably won't be much help to you Jill as I have not tried 
xxclone yet. However since my primary computer is a laptop running 
XP Pro, and since and I regularly back it up to an external hard 
drive (in addition to CDs and DVDs) I'll throw in my 2 cents worth.

The backups I currently make are not bootable. My primary concern is 
to save copies of my data, and xxcopy does that very nicely for me. 
However eventually I would also like to make my external drive (mine 
is a USB port drive) bootable and there has been some recent 
discussion about xxclone possibly doing that. However I believe it 
depends upon the bios of each individual computer, and I have to 
admit I have not yet checked the bios in this machine to see if it is 
capable of booting to a USB port drive. I do plan to check into that 
in the near future, and if it supports it, I'm going to give xxclone 
a try and see how it works. Perhaps your problem, since it mirrors 
my own situation, will motivate me to move on this a little faster.

John



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