Get a drive cloning program from the supplier of the USB connected drive or get a free one via google & TuCows etc.
Depending on the software you use, you may have to set the booting partition on the drive before you copy the partitions from your original drive Decision to make - do you want the USB drive to be an exact clone - or do you want to use it as a 'live' bootable backup OS If it's a backup you want, and you are not directly cloning the old drive to the new one then you may prefer to have a small booting OS partition that just contains recovery programs, then a clean, activated OS and drivers version of the OS, and/or one with your major (daily use) applications and utilities, and finally - a copy of your actual - daily use system and setup Finally - it may be a good time to adjust your OS partition size - DL DVD usage means that you (depending on the software you use) may want to ensure the OS partition has at least 10Gb free for working space - for when you get a new drive. JimB. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Diane Poremsky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, May 02, 2005 6:18 PM Subject: Easiest, fool-proof way for a fool to create a backup clone :) While I'm joking about the fool part... what is the easiest way for a non technical person to create a cloned drive (on USB) that they can swap out to boot if their drive fails? My friend with the USB drive that won't work without editing the registry (which we haven't tried yet - it works just fine with a powered hub) wants to use the second drive as a clone that he can just swap out. I use True image, but I'm not cloning so that I can just swap disks, I need to restore the image. -- -- ---------------------------------------- ALL messages to the list MUST include a descriptive subject. To Change your email Address for this list, send the following message: CHANGE WIN-HOME your_old_address your_new_address to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Note carefully that both old and new addresses are required. -- ---------------------------------------- ALL messages to the list MUST include a descriptive subject. To Change your email Address for this list, send the following message: CHANGE WIN-HOME your_old_address your_new_address to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Note carefully that both old and new addresses are required.
