basic backup scenerio setup
Posted: Wed Apr 11, 2012 4:15 pm
I use to research this stuff myself but I can see I may need help in not screwing up something this important that I don't plan on testing and there seems to be more settings I am unfamiliar with from the BING imaging program.
I have 225g SATA drive and I want to do a simple home backup where I can drop in a new drive of possibly different size etc. and restore back to working windows xp installation with data.
I have a dos partition, swap file partition and xp OS partition and data partition. I will back up all but the data partition once in a while and data more so.
The settings for the backup are a little baffling. It appears from a backup I've done that the OS bios is ok but maybe I want to set it to direct. Anyway these questions pop up for each setting I try to figure out, so I would appreciate a little hand holding here. I want it fast backing up and easy to restore to a new drive on crash scenerios. I'm saving my partinfo data so I can partition a new drive but maybe I don't even need that with the new IFD.
Even a link to something already addressed like this would be ok.
TIA
I have 225g SATA drive and I want to do a simple home backup where I can drop in a new drive of possibly different size etc. and restore back to working windows xp installation with data.
I have a dos partition, swap file partition and xp OS partition and data partition. I will back up all but the data partition once in a while and data more so.
The settings for the backup are a little baffling. It appears from a backup I've done that the OS bios is ok but maybe I want to set it to direct. Anyway these questions pop up for each setting I try to figure out, so I would appreciate a little hand holding here. I want it fast backing up and easy to restore to a new drive on crash scenerios. I'm saving my partinfo data so I can partition a new drive but maybe I don't even need that with the new IFD.
Even a link to something already addressed like this would be ok.
TIA