Kevin Malec
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Tue Dec 21, 2004 12:19 pm Post subject:
RE: Bootable Backup Image on External Drive? |
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Most external drives that i've seen (all that i've seen) actually contain a
normal ide drive in them, if that helps you any. you could switch them if
your main one fails.
do you have the external drive set up to boot (ie, an exact copy of the main
drive)? if you just have the files backed up using most backup programs or
some sort of archive format, I doubt it would boot. if you have or were
using a program like partition magic to copy the whole partition to the
external drive, it should work. (partition magic messed up MY external usb
hard drive, so I wouldn't recommend using it actually, other similar programs
worked though).
I could show you how to copy the whole disk to a file, mirror it to another
disk, restore it, etc, but using linux. if you want to do this using a
bootable cd like knoppix, ask me.
"dykesc" wrote:
| Quote: | I am able to make a backup image of my internal C:\ drive onto an external
drive I just bought. My question is; how do I get my computer to boot and
load windows from the external drive if my C:\ drive fails? My external
drive is not selectable as a boot source in my bios setup. Thanks in advance
for any help on this.
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