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The point of the exercise I described is that if I can do it, then I can
restore fully to a new hard drive in case of hard drive failure.
Thank you for the advice.
Edward Warren
"Sparda" <UseLinkToEmail@WindowsForumz.com> wrote in message
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> "" wrote:
> > I have 2 Colorado 5GB tape drives. I used to be able to
> > create an entire
> > image of my hard drive on them in Windows 98. I could then
> > erase the hard
> > drive, reformat it, and install from a boot floppy.
> >
> > Is anything like that possible with Windows XP and a 3rd party
> > backup
> > program?
> > Are my tape drives obsolete?
> > Should I adopt a new strategy of backing up only my data and
> > then reloading
> > each program individually in case of a catastrophe?
> > I would like to throw the tape drives away if they are really
> > of no use.
> > There does not seem to be a Windows XP driver for them anyway.
> > Thank you,
> > Edward Warren
>
> "I have 2 Colorado 5GB tape drives. I used to be able to create an
> entire image of my hard drive on them in Windows 98. I could then
> erase the hard drive, reformat it, and install from a boot floppy."
> Dosnt creating a hard drive image, then formating the hard drive, then
> putting the image back on defeate the point of formating? What you are
> effecticly doing is (analagy) geting a document, photo copying it,
> then burning the one you copied in the first place.
>
> "Is anything like that possible with Windows XP and a 3rd party backup
> program?"
> Probably, but it seems pointless to me.
>
> "Are my tape drives obsolete?"
> If they work no. (thats my opinion at least)
>
> "Should I adopt a new strategy of backing up only my data and then
> reloading each program individually in case of a catastrophe?"
> Yes, you should back up only data (not programs or hard drive images)
> you need, but make sure you know that you have backed up all data
> befor formating, a good place to start would be your profile folder
> (located some where like C
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ocuments and Settings)
>
> "I would like to throw the tape drives away if they are really of no
> use."
> As I have alredy said if they work then why upgrade. They are capable
> of storing 5GB each, not nessaserly the biggiest, but if they are
> bigginof to store all the data you need to store, then whats the
> problem?
>
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