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Can I save my working win XP somewhere and then reinstall it from there?
Can the installed Windows XP pro on my bootable hard drive be
archived and compressed to fit on a DVD or to another hard drive. Is there a way to archive it to a disc and then reconstruct it back to a wiped clean hard drive So it will be bootable and work? In other words will it let me have all my drivers and thing installed over the years be ready to go after a reinstall of the OS via that working OS not from the windows installer discs? |
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Can I save my working win XP somewhere and then reinstall it from there?
On Wed, 1 Feb 2012 08:30:17 -0800 (PST), DJW wrote:
Can the installed Windows XP pro on my bootable hard drive be archived and compressed to fit on a DVD or to another hard drive. Is there a way to archive it to a disc and then reconstruct it back to a wiped clean hard drive So it will be bootable and work? In other words will it let me have all my drivers and thing installed over the years be ready to go after a reinstall of the OS via that working OS not from the windows installer discs? A disk imaging program will do that. Macrium Reflect is a free product that works well. Acronis True Image is a retail product that also works well. Check out http://www.macrium.com/reflectfree.aspx I always create images onto another hard drive rather than split them across multiple DVD's, so I can't vouch for that aspect. |
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Can I save my working win XP somewhere and then reinstall it from there?
On Wed, 01 Feb 2012 12:00:47 -0600, Char Jackson
wrote: On Wed, 1 Feb 2012 08:30:17 -0800 (PST), DJW wrote: Can the installed Windows XP pro on my bootable hard drive be archived and compressed to fit on a DVD or to another hard drive. Is there a way to archive it to a disc and then reconstruct it back to a wiped clean hard drive So it will be bootable and work? In other words will it let me have all my drivers and thing installed over the years be ready to go after a reinstall of the OS via that working OS not from the windows installer discs? A disk imaging program will do that. Macrium Reflect is a free product that works well. Acronis True Image is a retail product that also works well. Check out http://www.macrium.com/reflectfree.aspx I always create images onto another hard drive rather than split them across multiple DVD's, so I can't vouch for that aspect. I hate following up to my own post, but I should have mentioned that an image is a (possibly compressed) archive of your drive and has to be restored to a drive before that drive can be used. A clone, on the other hand, is a live copy of a disk where the cloned disk can simply be plugged in and it works straight away. The programs mentioned above can do both, plus more. |
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Can I save my working win XP somewhere and then reinstall it from there?
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Char Jackson wrote: On Wed, 01 Feb 2012 12:00:47 -0600, Char Jackson wrote: On Wed, 1 Feb 2012 08:30:17 -0800 (PST), DJW wrote: Can the installed Windows XP pro on my bootable hard drive be archived and compressed to fit on a DVD or to another hard drive. Is there a way to archive it to a disc and then reconstruct it back to a wiped clean hard drive So it will be bootable and work? In other words will it let me have all my drivers and thing installed over the years be ready to go after a reinstall of the OS via that working OS not from the windows installer discs? A disk imaging program will do that. Macrium Reflect is a free product that works well. Acronis True Image is a retail product that also works well. Check out http://www.macrium.com/reflectfree.aspx I always create images onto another hard drive rather than split them across multiple DVD's, so I can't vouch for that aspect. I hate following up to my own post, but I should have mentioned that an image is a (possibly compressed) archive of your drive and has to be restored to a drive before that drive can be used. A clone, on the other hand, is a live copy of a disk where the cloned disk can simply be plugged in and it works straight away. The programs mentioned above can do both, plus more. Lots of software does the same things. -- Bill Gateway M465e ('06 era) - OE-QuoteFix v1.19.2 Centrino Core Duo T2400 1.83GHz - 2GB - Windows XP SP3 |
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