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typed on Sat, 17 Oct 2009 21:21:46 -0700:
BillW50 wrote:

I have become comfortable with imaging my systems right after a
build. This takes about 20 minutes - but presupposes the
discipline of not ever keeping "data" on C:. I keep "data" on
a separate "D:" drive always.

There are dozens of utilities that do this. Mine is called
Terabyte and cost about 20 bucks...

You can do this for free. Lots of them actually.

Ya, just by copying them where you want them, I have nothing in My
Documents, Pictures, Music and so on, I save everything mostly to my
F:\ Drive

Heck, Tweak UI will change the directories "My Documents, Pictures,
Music and so on" to anywhere you want your stuff saved.
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/D...powertoys.mspx

-If your not running XP, each Windows OS has it's own powertoys, and
version of Tweak UI-

No what I am referring to for free are like Acronis True Image and
Paragon. Both are top of the line backup software available at any
price.

Acronis True Image Seagate Edition (DiscWizard)
http://www.seagate.com/www/en-us/sup...ads/discwizard

Acronis True Image WD Edition
http://support.wdc.com/product/downl...&wdc_lang =en

Paragon DriveBackup Express 9 (free)
http://www.paragon-software.com/home/db-express/

And you really don't need to separate the docs from the system
partition. As most backup programs can backup folders as well as
partitions. So you can if you want too, make a backup of the system and
the data inn two separate backups from the same partition if you want.

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Bill
Asus EEE PC 701G4 ~ 2GB RAM ~ 16GB-SDHC
Windows XP SP2