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Backup strategy for a system which may need a hard drive replacement
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| George Saridakis 2005-01-27, 5:46 pm |
| Hi Folks,
I have a laptop with a single hard drive which may be going south and want
to devise a backup and restore strategy that will minimize fix time.
If I look at my hard drive folders, I have the following:
1.. Dell
2.. Documents and Settings
3.. Program Files
4.. Windows
If I backup 2 & 3, and get a replacement disk which is not identical to the
current hard drive, can I restore 2 & 3 and expect them to work as before
the hard drive replacement?
What happens to the old system state with the new hard drive?
thanks
George
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| "George Saridakis" <george@saridakis.com> wrote in message
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> Hi Folks,
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> I have a laptop with a single hard drive which may be going south and want
> to devise a backup and restore strategy that will minimize fix time.
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> If I look at my hard drive folders, I have the following:
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> 1.. Dell
> 2.. Documents and Settings
> 3.. Program Files
> 4.. Windows
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> If I backup 2 & 3, and get a replacement disk which is not identical to
> the current hard drive, can I restore 2 & 3 and expect them to work as
> before the hard drive replacement?
>
No there are many files from 2 & 3 that are tied into 4. Use some imaging
software to create a image of your drive then when you replace the drive you
can restore the image.
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> What happens to the old system state with the new hard drive?
A new hard drive device will be found.
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William
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| George Saridakis 2005-01-27, 8:45 pm |
| Hi William,
I have Retrospect 6.5 and tried to use a disaster recovery bootable disk
several weeks ago. The bootable disk would not run completely (quick
disappearing blue screen made it impossible to capture any error message).
I wiped the disk and reinstalled XP and all my applications and used
Retrospect to recover my files and application data. I suspect I had disk
problems since I had not run chkdsk before creating the disaster recovery
boot disk.
I could try running chkdsk with error fixing before I create another
disaster recovery disk, but I was also trying to identify a plan B in case
this happens again as it took me 5 days to install and download patches and
updates to all the applications I run.
thoughts?
George
"WTC" <bcrawfordjr(remove)@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> "George Saridakis" <george@saridakis.com> wrote in message
> news:10vio84ifjk0694@corp.supernews.com...
> No there are many files from 2 & 3 that are tied into 4. Use some imaging
> software to create a image of your drive then when you replace the drive
> you can restore the image.
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>
> A new hard drive device will be found.
>
> --
> William
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| "George Saridakis" <george@saridakis.com> wrote in message
news:10vivvcl05rg144@corp.supernews.com...
> Hi William,
>
> I have Retrospect 6.5 and tried to use a disaster recovery bootable disk
> several weeks ago. The bootable disk would not run completely (quick
> disappearing blue screen made it impossible to capture any error message).
>
> I wiped the disk and reinstalled XP and all my applications and used
> Retrospect to recover my files and application data. I suspect I had disk
> problems since I had not run chkdsk before creating the disaster recovery
> boot disk.
>
> I could try running chkdsk with error fixing before I create another
> disaster recovery disk, but I was also trying to identify a plan B in case
> this happens again as it took me 5 days to install and download patches
> and updates to all the applications I run.
>
> thoughts?
>
> George
>
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> "WTC" <bcrawfordjr(remove)@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:%23zi3IqLBFHA.2180@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
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Look in your even viewer for errors.
start>run and type
eventvwr
also disable Automatic Restart by
start>run and type
sysdm.cpl
go to Advance>Startup and Recovery Settings>uncheck "Automatic Restart".
When the next time an error occurs, write down the message and post a new
post with you error.
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William
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