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Originally Posted by bucketbakereturn
CAn i just butt in and ask if i were to take an 'image' (what is that exactly and how can it mimic/act like the original drive) of my hard drive could i then transfer it onto another disk and boot to Windows from the new drive. My ipod tracks are fillin up the original 40G quickly and at todays prices a much bigger disk makes alot of sense. i think i'm askin a v similar question here but u see me no understand.
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Yes, but why bother doing that. The cable inside your PC connecting to the existing HDD will have a second plug on it for a second HDD, and you should have a spare power plug close by.
To achieve what you want to do you are better buying a second HDD, setting it as secondary or slave and plugging it into the PC, then dragging iTunes etc onto that disk freeing up space on the C drive.
The next step is to move Documents and Settings and all other user created data onto that disk, then if the Windows disk corrupts, you can rebuild windows and won't lose all this data.
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Originally Posted by Ramrod
Tnx all...will Norton Ghost or Acronis produce a fully functional HDD if I need to replace the the original with the one that has the (ghost) backup copy on it?
edit. just looked at them......it looks like they will do the job  .....just got to choose one now.......  |
Can this be done on schedule? If I leave a disk either in the machine or in a firewire caddy can I get my PC to extract files from certain locations on the windows file and printer sharing network and drop a copy onto this drive each night. Is it intelligent to do this on changed only files etc.
Looks like this will do the job
http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing.../features.html
but it does not explain whether it can get these files from different PCs.