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Old December 18th 05, 03:58 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.perform_maintain
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Default Recovery from 3rd Party Backup Software

Sen wrote:
I am thinking of getting either Ghost or Acronis True Image backup
software to image my C: drive to reduce down time if my hard disk
crashes. I have been told that I need to re-install my external
backup drive as an internal primary drive to get my computer to
recover. In such an emergency, can't I restart the system from just
the external backup drive for the shortest down time? Appreciate your
advice.


Both Ghost and Acronis can make a bootable CD that can restore your image
from the external drive. It is a good isea to test that you can boot from
this CD and access the image on the external drive before you need to use
it.

Kerry


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