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> Bill wrote:
>
> > How often do you erase your hard drive (voluntary or otherwise) and have to
> > reload the OS and applications?
> >
> > For me, it seems about once a year. I am just wondering what others do??
>
> I have a 40G hard drive partitioned to two 20G drives and Drive Image 2002.
>
> The first partition is the normal c:\ drive with the OS, programs, etc.
> It currently uses about 4G of the 20G partition.
>
> The second partition is used to save occasional images of the primary drive.
> If I add new games, or programs, I make an new image first. I can always go
> back
> to previous images. I have 8 old images( stores about 2:1 compression) and
> a Misc file directory. I just delete the oldest image as I need room.
>
> I also have a spare drive on a removable HDD Mobile Rack that I store an
> occasional image.
>
> I haven't had to rebuild the OS with all the drivers since I initially imaged
> it.
>
> Reimaging the c:\ drive takes about 10 minutes.
if anyone is interested, the Primary drive c:\
is NTFS WinXP, and the secondary partition / drive that
images are stored to is FAT32.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000066J6A/103-6149365-9848654
It's best to backup to a spare removable drive on a HDD mobile rack IMO.