Thanks, Jim. Like I said, I'm a beginner at this, so I think I'll need to go
for a software program.
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From: "James Button" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, September 30, 2005 3:05 PM
Subject: Re: Backing up to external hard drive
Hopefully when the drive connects to your PC, it gets allocated one, or
more
partition id letters
( If you have formatted it )
Set up a bat file of xcopy commands
(optionally get xxcopy)
or replicator from www.Karenware,com
Check google and the archives for more detail including the options to use
on dos copy
- you won't be able to copy all the files from your OS partition -
indeed you shouldn't do the backup of your OS partition as a file copy run
under that OS
Ideally, use a partition backup/imaging application to take a restorable
copy of the OS partition,
then use xcopy to backup your data files on a regular basis
you can even get a bat file to backup the entire set of data to a new
directory including the date in it's name
and - optionally only backup changed files most days of the week - with a
fuller copy once a week/month
JimB
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From: "mwarmour" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, September 30, 2005 4:37 PM
Subject: Backing up to external hard drive
This must have been covered in the past, but I'm hoping someone will be
patient enough to tell me where to find the info I need. I just bought a
Maxtor external hard drive for backing up my Dell Inspiron laptop (WinXP
Home). I want to copy my entire C drive, Outlook Express files and
Favorites, then do scheduled incremental backups. (I'm pretty much a
beginner at this.) I tried the Windows backup program but it requires
using
a floppy and I don't have a floppy disk drive. My Dell tech support chat
session about this could be a standup comedian's script if he could do a
good Indian accent.
Maureen
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