If this is your first visit, be sure to check out the FAQ by clicking the link above. You may have to register before you can post: click the register link above to proceed. To start viewing messages, select the forum that you want to visit from the selection below. |
|
|
Thread Tools | Display Modes |
#1
|
|||
|
|||
Recovery from 3rd Party Backup Software
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. |
Ads |
#2
|
|||
|
|||
Recovery from 3rd Party Backup Software
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. |
#3
|
|||
|
|||
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. |
#4
|
|||
|
|||
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 |
#5
|
|||
|
|||
Recovery from 3rd Party Backup Software
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 Mirroring is not a viable backup method. Many of the things that may damage one hard drive will also damage the other drive. There are many reasons not to use software mirroring. If one drive quits you will not be able to boot from the other drive. In any case the point is moot. Software mirroring is not supported by any version of Windows XP. It is only supported with Server 2000 & 2003. Hardware mirroring is possible with many newer motherboards. Again this is not designed as a backup method. It is designed for servers to keep a system up and running until downtime can be scheduled to replace a defective drive. Kerry "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. |
Thread Tools | |
Display Modes | |
|
|
Similar Threads | ||||
Thread | Thread Starter | Forum | Replies | Last Post |
Desktop, explorer, iexpore won't start | [email protected] | Performance and Maintainance of XP | 4 | October 25th 05 11:08 PM |
Backup MyPC - of interest | Crusty \(-: Old B@stard :-\) | Hardware and Windows XP | 15 | April 5th 05 06:50 AM |
Recovery Console Perplexations and Woes | Bart Marks | General XP issues or comments | 9 | February 18th 05 11:19 PM |
For users of Spyware Eliminator by Aluria Software | MAP | Security and Administration with Windows XP | 0 | November 5th 04 01:55 AM |
OEM software | SN | General XP issues or comments | 22 | November 1st 04 07:23 PM |