Can you back up your hard drive on CD???

[Julian]

Hi all,

I was wondering if I could reinstall my computer from scratch, get it set up
nicely and then copy the hard drive to CD so that in the future I would just
have to copy the CD to a formatted hard drive and NOT have to reinstall
again. Is this possible simply by copying the hard drive or do I need
special software (maybe "Drive Image"?? for example).

I'd really appreciate any input on this idea. Thanks a lot. Please email
replies to the...@clo.com if you can or just reply to this address
(kh...@mcmaster.ca). I'll do my best to check the newsgroup.

Bye,
Julian

[CygnusX1]

Yes, you need a program such as Drive Image 2.0. I just picked it up and am
awaiting the release of Direct X 6 before I burn an image into a CD. My game
plan is to make a bootable CD with an image of my C: drive on it.

If I can find this post (I am having the darndest time with the NG's!!
Anyone know of a place to get some good tips on happy NG'ing) I'll let you
know how it goes.

Julian wrote in message <6pb0qi$gp5$1...@doghouse.clo.com>...

[The Z Man]

>I was wondering if I could reinstall my computer from scratch, get it set
up
>nicely and then copy the hard drive to CD so that in the future I would
just
>have to copy the CD to a formatted hard drive and NOT have to reinstall
>again. Is this possible simply by copying the hard drive or do I need
>special software (maybe "Drive Image"?? for example).

You could do it, but there are a lot better/more efficient means of
accomplishing your goal. I use an external Quantum 4.5G hard drive for
backup purposes. It holds seven times as much data as a cd, and it is a real
hard drive, so copying files is a cinch. Total cost of my backup solution
was about $250. I use Windows Commander to copy files.

[Scott Stickle]

You can get a 6.4gb deskstar for about $170 now.

Nobody wrote in message <6pfna0$1...@bgtnsc03.worldnet.att.net>...
|Of course if you get a deal on blank cd-r, then it would be cheaper to
backup on
|CD than on another hard drive. However, you have to make sure that your
cd-rom
|could still work without any driver support or that you bios allows you to
boot
|off a cd. Speaking of cost. Let me see. $250 for 4.50 GB vs. $0.99 for
10 CDs
|(It's a deal that they were offerring at CompUSA Buy 10 CDs at $20.99 with
a
|manufactor rebate of $20.) So the math works out to be around $55.56 per
GB for
|the hard drive and $0.15 per GB (using all 10 discs) for the CDs. Hmm...
That
|doesn't sound right. Could someone else work the math here. I'm not to
good
|with numbers off the top of my head.

[Nobody]

[The Z Man]

>doesn't sound right. Could someone else work the math here. I'm not to
good
>with numbers off the top of my head.

I do math all day during the week, but I'm off duty this weekend, so someone
else will hafta pitch in <g>.

[The Z Man]

Scott Stickle wrote in message ...

>You can get a 6.4gb deskstar for about $170 now.

Sure but it won't help you back up :)

To back up you need a SCSI hard drive. I just plug it into the external
connector of either of the two computers on my office network which have
SCSI cards and copy the files. It is very fast, and if things go bad, I can
run the programs right from my backup (it has a clean install of Win98 on
it). I take the drive home with me for off-site backup.

[Chris Bennett]

You need "Off-line" storage for proper backup. What if a power surge
fries both your hard drives? You are dead in the water. What if you
deleted a file but did not discover that fact until two or three
backups later? With a CD backup, you can keep them for years just in
case.

Chris Bennett

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[mikel]

Well, I can see where that fits your needs better; but, for me...
The deskstar, or any ide drive is fine for backups. With the extra
space I just copy the whole drive or whatever part I want to back up.
If I crash, I boot from a floppy, copy my drive back and away I go.
It is perhaps more sloppy. But, the low cost of good ide hard drives
today makes them excellent for back up work for many users who don't
want to pay extra for, or worry about configuring, SCSI.

'Night all,
Mikel

[jus...@here.now]

Seagate Backup Exec 3 will allow you to do a full harddrive backup to
CD. It will also allow you to do a full resore to your hard drive
without install the operating system.

On Sun, 26 Jul 1998 11:57:01 -0400, "The Z Man"
<dave...@email.msn.com> wrote:

>>I was wondering if I could reinstall my computer from scratch, get it set
>up
>>nicely and then copy the hard drive to CD so that in the future I would
>just
>>have to copy the CD to a formatted hard drive and NOT have to reinstall
>>again. Is this possible simply by copying the hard drive or do I need
>>special software (maybe "Drive Image"?? for example).
>
>

[JOKII]

On Wed, 29 Jul 1998 02:15:33 GMT, jus...@here.now wrote:
where can i get Seagate Backup Exec 3?

[Nobody]

I have been sucessful using the seagate backup that ships with Win 98. The
disadvantage of this option, is that you have to install Win 98 first, then
restore the backup file. I even backed up while using Fat32, used Fdisk to
get my HDD visible to DOS, then installed the backup on top of Win 98. I've
been too busy to convert back to Fat32. This option adds about 1 extra hour
to the task but no extra meney needs to be spent. HTH.

[John Beardmore]

In article <35be84f0...@nntp.a001.sprintmail.com>, jus...@here.now
writes

>Seagate Backup Exec 3 will allow you to do a full harddrive backup to
>CD. It will also allow you to do a full resore to your hard drive
>without install the operating system.

Does it support NTFS ?

Cheers, J/.
--
John Beardmore