I have a little desktop system built around an Asus H55 board and Intel
Nahalem Clarkdale cpu and 2 identical Samsung 500gb HD's.
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| | | | | | |
Disk 1 |D1P1| D1P2 | D1P3 | D1P4 |unalloc | D1P5 |
| | W7 | XP | data | | old sys |
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Disk 2 |D2P1| D2P2 | D2P3 |unalloc | D2P4 |
| | W7 | XP | | old sys |
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where DiPj is Partition j on Disk i.
All OS's are either Win7 or XP. All partitions are NTFS. The P1's are
presumably mere fragments (7.84 mb) left over from allocation, but Partition
Wizard CD lists them as partitions.
Every Sunday nite I delete D2P3 and copy D1P3 to D2P3 running a
bootable Partition Wizard CD:
http://www.partitionwizard.com/partition-wizard-bootable-cd.html
This effectively gives me an image copy of the data on my primary use
partition. D1P3 and D2P3 each sit on 79 gb of space.
Is D1P3 100% safe? If a file on D1P3 becomes corrupted, I can merely copy such
file from D2P3 back to D1P3. Similar for a directory/file structure.
If D1P3 became corrupted, I could copy D2P3 back to D1P3 using bootable
Partition Wizard CD in a similar fashion? Remember that the disk geometries are
identical. I'm not concerned with extremely unlikely disaster scenarios like
electrical problems that fry the entire desktop.
Safe? Unsafe?? What say you? :-)
Thanks,
David
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