I personally would just back up data and not worry about the OS at all..
Just documents, favorites, files and maybe the registry.  That's all I ever
do and 99% or the time after a crash I usually just wipe and start over and
still have the data.  But to back up everything, I would go with Norton
Ghost everytime.

Dave Jones
http://www.vdoguy.com
http://www.airmemories.com

Camel: A horse designed by committee


----- Original Message -----
From: "Johnny Todd" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, April 18, 2003 7:21 PM
Subject: [PCBUILD] Backing up Hard drive?


Hello All,  I have a Laptop Notebook Dell CPxJ running windows XP Pro., 12
gig hard drive, Pentium III 500 mhz,  128 meg ram.

With an external hard drive of about 120 gigs attached to a USB hub (version
2.0)  running from my PCMCIA slot, to back up my 12 gig hard drive can I
just copy and paste or drag-and-drop my entire 12 gig hard drive to the
external hard drive, or is there certain steps I have to take?

Or does anyone have a better suggestion?

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