First of all Karan's replicator is mainly for backing up your data files which can be anything other than programs, but it mostly refers to emails, word processor files and other such documents.
Second of all my tutorial for Image For Windows on the audio page does cover backing up and restoring an entire hard drive and not just the data partition. If I were to recover an entire data partition then Replicator would be my program of choice. The system I did that second image for windows tutorial didn't even have a data partition on it at the time of that recording. David Ferrin Most people don't know what they're doing and a lot of them are really good at it. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gerald Levy" <bwaylimi...@verizon.net> To: <blind-computing@jaws-users.com> Sent: Saturday, September 03, 2011 7:43 AM Subject: Re: [Blind-Computing] how do you perform a drive backup using Karen'sreplicator Karen's Replicator is suitable for backing up files and settings, not an entire hard drive. To back up an entire hard drive, including the OS and all programs so that you can restore it in the event of a catastrophic failure, you need a disk imaging program like Image for Windows or Paragon Backup and Recovery. The problem with all imaging programs is that there is no way to reliably perform the recovery procedure without sighted help because there is no speech accompanying the boot CD, which all these programs require. There is an audio tutorial on the JAWS Users audio page in which David describes how to create an image backup of a data partition on a pair of DVD's using Image for Windows and then restore it without speech, but I have not heard of anyone using this technique to successfully backup and restore an entire hard drive, which would potentially require a lot more DVD's. Gerald ----- Original Message ----- From: "jason smith" <thisi...@picknowl.com.au> To: <blind-computing@jaws-users.com> Sent: Saturday, September 03, 2011 5:19 AM Subject: [Blind-Computing] how do you perform a drive backup using Karen'sreplicator > Hi list. I want to start using Karen's replicator to perform backups of my > XP system onto an external hard drive. I have listened to David's > tutorials on how to use the program. But I also did a google search. As I > wanted to get more information, as to what kind of things the program can > backup? I originally thought. That you had to perform a separate job for > each file type you wanted to backup? For example, one for documents, one > for emails etc. However, I read that it is possible to have Karen's > replicator to perform a complete disk backup. I am assuming that this > would not be an image backup. But would like to know. What would be > backupped? And how would you go about setting up a job that would result > in a complete hard drive backup? > > This backing up process, is all new to me. So any opinions would be most > welcome. > > Thanks Jason > > P.S I am using Outlook express and Jaws 12. I am mainly wanting to backup > all of my files. So that I can access them on my external hard drive, if > my computer happens to die. I am planning on buying a system with windows > 7 on ti soon. And so obviously, want to be able to access my backupped > files from the external hard drive using that new computer. > For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: > http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
