[filmscanners] Re: Slightly, somewhat OT

["Arthur Entlich" <artistic-1@shaw.ca>]

I don't run XP, but I think someone told me that the backup program
provided does a "complete" backup including the unused area of the hard
drive, which would mean a much larger backup for anyone who has blank
space on their hard drives...

Perhaps someone can confirm if this is accurate...

Art

Alex Zabrovsky wrote:

> Oh really ? I didn't know that. Great.
> However I already installed and did GHOST backup (took 4 CDs).
> Do this Automated System Recovery compress the HDD image prior to burning to
> the media or this is done as it is ?
>
> BTW, does it create your backup DVD-RAM as bootable ? (and in this case your
> BIOS should support
> your DVD drive as one of the bootable devices available in your system)
>
> Regards,
> Alex Z
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: filmscanners_owner@halftone.co.uk
> [mailto:filmscanners_owner@halftone.co.uk]On Behalf Of Bob Frost
> Sent: Tuesday, August 20, 2002 1:27 PM
> To: alexz@zoran.co.il
> Subject: [filmscanners] Re: Slightly, somewhat OT
>
>
> Alex,
>
> If you have XP Pro, you don't need any special software to backup
> everything; it is built into the XP Backup routine. Just select Automated
> System Recovery and everything on your computer (including partition data)
> is backed up to the place of your choice. I use DVD-RAM for these backups.
>
> Bob Frost.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Alex Zabrovsky" <alexz@zoran.co.il>
>
>
>
> In any case, without any relation to the backup device choice, I would
> recommend to use GHOST software which is the perfect system working-ready
> backup software. It is especially invented to allow to the user to backup
> his whole HDD including everything he has on it and in the case of HDD
> failure you can easily replicate all you had on your new HDD with any need
> for reinstallation. All your setups, software, anything is recovered exactly
> as it was during the GHOST HDD image creation.
>
>
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