back up hd to external drive??

[News@beeb.net]

hello
i'm just about to add other os's onto my system & wondered if there was a
way to back up all contents on the drive at present onto a external drive
just incase things go wrong ,currently i'm using XP P and i have tried to
use back-up/CMS & system resore without any joy.

help would be appreciated from experienced XP P users/
many thanks nicholas

[athanasian_creed]

wrote:
> hello
> i'm just about to add other os's onto my system & wondered if there
> was a way to back up all contents on the drive at present onto a
> external drive just incase things go wrong ,currently i'm using XP P
> and i have tried to use back-up/CMS & system resore without any joy.
>
> help would be appreciated from experienced XP P users/
> many thanks nicholas

One way would be to use a 3rd party program such as Ghost, Drive Image, True
Image to back up to an external HD.

Good luck,

Ray

[News@beeb.net]

thanks ray
i'm looking at purchasing the norton ghost 2k on eb
cheers
"athanasian_creed" > wrote in message
...
> wrote:
> > hello
> > i'm just about to add other os's onto my system & wondered if there
> > was a way to back up all contents on the drive at present onto a
> > external drive just incase things go wrong ,currently i'm using XP P
> > and i have tried to use back-up/CMS & system resore without any joy.
> >
> > help would be appreciated from experienced XP P users/
> > many thanks nicholas
>
> One way would be to use a 3rd party program such as Ghost, Drive Image,
True
> Image to back up to an external HD.
>
> Good luck,
>
> Ray
>
>

[Peter Hutchison]

On Sun, 3 Aug 2003 11:53:52 +0100, " >
wrote:

>hello
>i'm just about to add other os's onto my system & wondered if there was a
>way to back up all contents on the drive at present onto a external drive
>just incase things go wrong ,currently i'm using XP P and i have tried to
>use back-up/CMS & system resore without any joy.
>
>help would be appreciated from experienced XP P users/
>many thanks nicholas
>
Use Ghost or Drive Image to copy the entire contents of a partition or
volume to another disk or partition.

Peter Hutchison
Windows FAQ
http://www.pcguru.plus.com/