Diane: I'm using "Casper XP" from Future Systems Solutions,com. It does
exactly what you want to do as long you re-install to the same computer, it
will boot. Won't work if you want to install on another machine, not yet
anyway. It's not free but, very reasonable. It also includes "drive 2 drive"
included for the one price incase your'e using other versions of Windows
such as ME,98,98SE,95 and such. Or you can just download Drive2Drive alone.
Ed Bogert

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>Subject: [PCSOFT] Backing Up
>Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2003 10:57:32 -0500
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>I want to backup my entire hard drive onto a removeable hard drive.  I
>was thinking of going into DOS and using the copy command with all the
>little switches.  Do you think that's the best way?
>
>And how can I make it bootable just in case?
>
>Diane Kroeckel
>Wheeling, IL
>
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