Well, to each his own.
But most serious it folks use imaging software.
Most folks don't have mobile racks, although that's a nice option and
one I should consider.
if you needed to move between different images you'd soon have to
have quite a few hard-drives to do this.
I like having several images for different set-ups available on the
drive or partition of my choice.
Programs like ghost like dynamically size partitions, and that means
you could image an empty partition and instantly format, a nice trick
I used to do a lot.
And there are still times you need to back up or do stuff and you
don't have a working windows system.
So drive imaging software is much more flexible.
If your imaging 40 gigs of stuff, your doing it the hard way.
The smart thing to do is to have a small boot partition and keep data
off on other drives or partitions.
You read in these pc magazines and such and that's how it's
recommended to do, and a lot of power users I know and work with do
it that way.
Because it's most likely that the boot drive or part will get messed up.
Then you can just restore the programs and system drive that got
screwed up, and your data is fine.
So these windows solutions are only a partial fix.
Through the years I have proven this to myself over and over again by
not having to go to the shop, or get sighted help.
I'm so glad I got in to computing when you actually had to know
something about them rather than clickety clickety click.
I have a lot more to learn, but I can't count the number of systems
I've ressurected and made good again for friends, and made a few
sheckles in the bargain.
All these reg cleaners, and spy-ware checkers, and patch jobs only
put off the inevitable.
Being able ti image a system is a sure fire way of getting back to a
good working state.
And having complete control of your operating system, and data and
having it the way you want it is true independance.
At 01:07 PM 10/1/2008, you wrote:
for most people backing up there one computer is all they want.
casper is faster then burning a dvd and unlike a image the backup
drive can be booted from and you have complete access to the files
from the backup. like if you accidently delete a file you can do
this within windows with speech access.
it takes me 10 hours to burn a image of 40gb of data to dvd. and if
the disc is bad even longer.
it only takes 30 minutes to image to another hard drive with image
for windows.
when useing mobil racks with casper you , depending on your computer
do not have to change the jumpers on the two drives for master and slave when
swapping drives. the jumper is changed to c s instead of master and
slave for both drives. then when you swap drives the drives will
automatically change between master and slave.
original message
i don't know if these jumper settings apply to a sada drive.
I just don't see the advantage of all of this work. Casper from
http://www.fssdev.com works and allows me to accomplish the same
thing as long as I'm willing to change the boot order of my hard
drives and it functions within Windows and talks completely. No
it isn't a sector by sector image, but that isn't really necessary
99.9 percent of the time since it does do a complete file copy.
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