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Windows Forum / Windows XP / Performance and Maintainance / May 2008Back Up
From other posts I can see that the back up will not work with a cd. Is backing it up to another drive (d) the only way to back up my files besides buying an external hard drive. How do I back up to the d drive. And if I have a system crash, wouldn't that drive also crash? I have to guess at my answers since you asked your question in a vague way. In future please try to be as specific as possible. If "the backup" means the backup utility included with Windows XP, sometimes known as Microsoft Backup, you are correct that it does not backup directly to a CD. Instead, have the utility write the backup file to a location on your hard disk and then use your CD burning software to burn the backup file to CDs. An external hard drive offers several advantages over CDs as a backup destination. For one, you don't have to deal with the uncertainties of CD burning software. Backing up to (and restoring from) an external drive is much faster than backing up to/restoring from CDs. And backing up to an external drive can be scheduled, which is usually impossible or at least awkward with CDs. "How do I back up to the d drive." I don't know what your D drive is. --- Leonard Grey Errare humanum est > From other posts I can see that the back up will not work with a cd. Is > backing it up to another drive (d) the only way to back up my files besides > buying an external hard drive. How do I back up to the d drive. And if I > have a system crash, wouldn't that drive also crash? You guessed correctly as to what I was trying to ask. And thanks for the prompt response. When I referred to "d" drive I meant the other hard disk drive that I see when I look at "My Computer". > I have to guess at my answers since you asked your question in a vague > way. In future please try to be as specific as possible. [quoted text clipped - 23 lines] > > buying an external hard drive. How do I back up to the d drive. And if I > > have a system crash, wouldn't that drive also crash? > From other posts I can see that the back up will not work with a cd. Is > backing it up to another drive (d) the only way to back up my files > besides > buying an external hard drive. How do I back up to the d drive. And if I > have a system crash, wouldn't that drive also crash? Ntbackup can create a file on a disk, and that is what you do. Be aware that you must create a floppy disk, and you must restore the system with a distribution CD and a floppy drive for the above mentioned disk. If you have a system crash, the other drives still keep working. Jim > > From other posts I can see that the back up will not work with a cd. Is > > backing it up to another drive (d) the only way to back up my files [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > > If you have a system crash, the other drives still keep working. That depends. If the other drives are really just partitions on a single physical drive, if the drive crashes, *all* partitions crash with it. And even if they are separate physical drives, they are still subject to simultaneous loss along with the original to such problems as severe power glitches (like a nearby lightning strike), virus attacks, and theft of the computer. If your data is important to you, you need to backup to external media not stored within the computer.  SignatureKen Blake, Microsoft MVP - Windows Desktop Experience Please Reply to the Newsgroup > From other posts I can see that the back up will not work with a cd. Is > backing it up to another drive (d) the only way to back up my files besides > buying an external hard drive. How do I back up to the d drive. And if I > have a system crash, wouldn't that drive also crash? An external drive provides *much* more safety than an internal one. That goes double if your second internal (d:) drive is really just a second partition on your only physical drive (which it probably is). You might be interested in reading this article I recently wrote about backup: http://www.computorcompanion.com/LPMArticle.asp?ID=314 SignatureKen Blake, Microsoft MVP - Windows Desktop Experience Please Reply to the Newsgroup |
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