Got a system running windows 98, and a 20gb HDD. On this drive there is 2.1Gb of data, including all the windows folders etc.
I would like to back up the entire drive onto a partition on my other PC.
I have taken the HDD out and installed it into my second PC. This PC has an 80gb HDD partioned into a 50gb (c drive) and 30 gb (D drive).
Now, the file structure in windows98 will be in Fat32, while XP is in NTFS.
Is there a simple utility that can backup the entire drive of the win98 machine into a specified folder on the D drive of the XP machine? In the even of a disk failure, it should just be a matter of restoring the data back onto a replacement HDD. It should make the the drive bootable, and functioning prior to the incident.
Aosmosis wrote:> Got a system running windows 98, and a 20gb HDD. On this drive there> is 2.1Gb of data, including all the windows folders etc.>
I would like to back up the entire drive onto a partition on my other> PC.
Ok
I have taken the HDD out and installed it into my second PC. This PC> has an 80gb HDD partioned into a 50gb (c drive) and 30 gb (D drive).>
Now, the file structure in windows98 will be in Fat32, while XP is in> NTFS.>
Is there a simple utility that can backup the entire drive of the> win98 machine into a specified folder on the D drive of the XP> machine? In the even of a disk failure, it should just be a matter of> restoring the data back onto a replacement HDD. It should make the> the drive bootable, and functioning prior to the incident.>
Norton Ghost or some other imaging software would work.
If you have the machines networked then you should be able to schedule it to run automatically
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"Aosmosis" <spam@sdp.com> wrote in message news:41d9354d$0$4697$cc9e4d1f@news.dial.pipex.com...> Got a system running windows 98, and a 20gb HDD. On this drive there is> 2.1Gb of data, including all the windows folders etc.>
I would like to back up the entire drive onto a partition on my other PC.>
I have taken the HDD out and installed it into my second PC. This PC has
80gb HDD partioned into a 50gb (c drive) and 30 gb (D drive).>
Now, the file structure in windows98 will be in Fat32, while XP is in
NTFS.>
Is there a simple utility that can backup the entire drive of the win98> machine into a specified folder on the D drive of the XP machine?> In the even of a disk failure, it should just be a matter of restoring
data back onto a replacement HDD. It should make the the drive bootable,
functioning prior to the incident.>
You can certainly copy the disk onto the 'D' drive of your XP machine as XP will read FAT32 but won't it write in NTFS which will make it impossible to do the copy back again.
How much is used on the 'D' drive, can you make another partition on that drive say around 10 gig and format it as FAT32 that way you can copy either way without problems.
