In short, I'm looking to back up
This:
C: 200gb Internal IDE Windows XP Professional.
To this:
LaCie 2TB External USB drive.
The sort of backup i want to create,
is a 200 GB partition on the LaCie 2TB USB drive.
Of my "C: 200gb Windows XP Professional" main disk.
At some point in the future, when my present "C: 200gb Internal IDE Windows XP Professional" disk fails,
I want to be able to copy from the LaCie's partition, to a "New 200GB Internal SATA" drive.
Boot it, and go back to work.
But i'm not sure how to copy the:
C: 200gb Internal IDE Windows XP Professional.
drive,
to a partition on the
LaCie 2TB External USB
drive.
Presently my Lacie 2TB External USB, is empty, off, and not formatted.
Presently my C: 200gb Internal IDE Windows XP Professional, is running in this pc letting me type to you.
I don't think it's of any consequence, but i should note, my Lacie 2TB External USB, is made from two, 1TB drives raided together with Raid1, to act as one giant 2TB drive. since its an external USB, my OS will never know it's actually talking to a Raid1 array.
So what do i need to know to make this happen?
Since C: is in use while windows is running, i don't think i can copy it to an external usb partition can i?
Can some one explain to me how i can go about backing it up? Maybe show me a link to a similar setup and situation?
Is there Free Software that will do this better? We are still talking about IDE, SATA, and USB hookups after all..
I could really use some guidance. I hope some one, two, three, or four replies.
I've done formatting before, and even drive copying, with a Western-Dgital floppy disk.
But i've never done anything like this, with usb, C:, raid1, SATA.
Thank you ahead of time, to those whom help! *^-^*
~tbe
This:
C: 200gb Internal IDE Windows XP Professional.
To this:
LaCie 2TB External USB drive.
The sort of backup i want to create,
is a 200 GB partition on the LaCie 2TB USB drive.
Of my "C: 200gb Windows XP Professional" main disk.
At some point in the future, when my present "C: 200gb Internal IDE Windows XP Professional" disk fails,
I want to be able to copy from the LaCie's partition, to a "New 200GB Internal SATA" drive.
Boot it, and go back to work.
But i'm not sure how to copy the:
C: 200gb Internal IDE Windows XP Professional.
drive,
to a partition on the
LaCie 2TB External USB
drive.
Presently my Lacie 2TB External USB, is empty, off, and not formatted.
Presently my C: 200gb Internal IDE Windows XP Professional, is running in this pc letting me type to you.
I don't think it's of any consequence, but i should note, my Lacie 2TB External USB, is made from two, 1TB drives raided together with Raid1, to act as one giant 2TB drive. since its an external USB, my OS will never know it's actually talking to a Raid1 array.
So what do i need to know to make this happen?
Since C: is in use while windows is running, i don't think i can copy it to an external usb partition can i?
Can some one explain to me how i can go about backing it up? Maybe show me a link to a similar setup and situation?
Is there Free Software that will do this better? We are still talking about IDE, SATA, and USB hookups after all..
I could really use some guidance. I hope some one, two, three, or four replies.
I've done formatting before, and even drive copying, with a Western-Dgital floppy disk.
But i've never done anything like this, with usb, C:, raid1, SATA.
Thank you ahead of time, to those whom help! *^-^*
~tbe