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Old December 18th 05, 03:47 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.perform_maintain
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Default Recovery from 3rd Party Backup Software

Thanks Yogi for your reply. Yes it is an external USB backup drive. The
common advice I get is that it is unstable to boot from an external USB
drive, if it is possible. If this being the case, the external USB backup
drive seems to be good for cloning a new harddisk to reboot my computer in
which case I need to have a standby harddisk ready for such emergency or that
I reinstall the external drive as the new internal primary drive for the
shortest downtime solution. The crux of my concern is whether XP can
recognise the active partition in my external USB backup drive and be able
to boot from it with or without help from some recovery disk from my 3rd
party backup software like Ghost or Acronis True Image. My consideration is
for a shortest downtime solution to get the computer up and going when my
harddisk crashes.
"yogi" wrote:

I think what you are talking about here is an external usb hard drive. Let me
know if i'm wrong here. If it is it should automatically be detected by
windows as a hard drive which it can boot from. To address the case of an
image backup and to have the shortest downtime i would prefer to use the xp's
internal mirroring capability.

yogi

"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.

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