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If you create a bakcup of your C drive on your C drive, this can have two
problems:
1) If you drive C fails, you also loose your backup. I never seen any
system where two drives fail at the same time.
2) During the backup, the Wizard will have problems:
a) The Wizard will try to backup the active backup file. This can
cause a "Lock-up" in XP.
b) The Wizard may need "exclude" use of the drive for the backup.
With the "backup file" on the same drive, it may not be able to do this.
"ponderxpo" <ponderxpo@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:42C02B34-7B5F-47B2-A107-45DECED1C68D@microsoft.com...
> Using MSFT Wizard to backup my 'C' hard drive ... What diff would it be if
> I
> backed up to mybackup-folder on 'C' drive or a slave drive?
>
> My 'C' drive has Gigomonguss huge free space
> --
> Thanks,
> ponderxpo
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