![]() Drive Snapshot saves a 40 gigabyte XP system to an external hard disk in about an hour. According to the company, you can restore a complete, runnable system from backup (including the OS), though luckily I've not had to test that. It allows you to back up while doing other work. If I'd like to just back them up, bootability is not a necessity, just doing what I described is adequate right? EVERY file from my computers will be copied over? Acceptable ( talk) 04:20, 1 March 2009 (UTC) Reply I've been running a WinXP program called Drive Snapshot ( which claims to address the low-level issues in copying a complete operating system. ![]() Well, almost every time: don't become too zonked out by the process, as although the program can "read" your computer it can't read your mind, and a couple of the questions ask you what you want to do (back up, restore? to and from a drive or an image?) and of course you have to get those right. (Alternatively, you may feel reassured by a product coming from a conventional corporation, and want to shell out 70 bucks for Symantec "Norton" Ghost it won't actually be of any additional help, but maybe we should all do our bit to save large corporations.) Clonezilla will ask you lots of questions that you probably won't be able to answer just hit Enter for the default choice every time. Do you want to just back up all of the files on the backup drive itself, or do you want to make the external drive bootable? Until 01:51, 1 March 2009 (UTC) Reply If you either want to do the latter or want to make a copy within a backup drive that you can later turn into a bootable disk, I highly recommend Clonezilla. ![]() Suppose my computers each only have 1 hard drive (let's call it C: in both cases), is it sufficient to just double-click on the hard drive in "My Computer", hit Select All and copy all into my external hard drive? Acceptable ( talk) 00:54, 1 March 2009 (UTC) Reply Um, well this depends on what you want to do. I want to back up my Vista and XP machines.
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