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hi all

what is the best way to back up the HD on my 600X? i'd like something i can burn as .iso files onto a CD or something equally convenient. thanks

alfio

What do you already have in the way of hardware? By this I mean, internal or external CD or DVD burner? Docking station? Internal/external floppy?

My procedure is a little convoluted. I attach an external floppy drive to the side of the 600X. I swap out the optical Ultrabay drive and put in an Ultrabay hard drive adapter (with a backup hard drive of course), boot Ghost off of the floppy and clone the drive. When done, I shut down the system, remove the Ultrabay HD adapter and floppy drive. This way if something drastic happens to the system's hard drive, I can simply pop the other drive in. No restore operation or shuffling of CDs needed.

Which reminds me... I should probably back up my daughter's 600X pretty soon....

I put in a 100Mbps wired network card and backup to another machine.

rkawakami wrote:What do you already have in the way of hardware? By this I mean, internal or external CD or DVD burner? Docking station? Internal/external floppy?

i have a DVD burner i can connect via PCMCIA USB 2.0 card -- well that and a spare 80gb HD that can connect in the same way

alfio

is there any free software that will allow me to turn the contents of my HD into .iso files so that i can burn them onto DVDs?

alfio

whizkid wrote:http://www.thefreecountry.com/utilities ... mage.shtml

thanks whizkid! i started out with selfimage b/c that one looked to be the best in terms of what i'm looking for but had some problems. it doesn't seem like any of these do what seems to me anyway to be the easiest/most logical process: create a copy of the HD, compress/fraction it into .iso files for burning onto CDs/DVDs.

alfio

http://www.partition-saving.com/

Any use? I myself use a BartPE CD and DriveImageXML along with some other random Burning APP on the CD. Of course, Ghost is still King in this area for me.