From: kownby@sonic.net   
      
   Pastor Dave wrote:   
   > On Wed, 24 Jun 2009 12:09:33 -0800, Gualtier Malde   
   >  spake thusly:   
   >   
   >   
   >> gene martinez wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> KO  wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>>> I just started to read this group.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> I have been using  PC for years, but have never   
   >>>> done more for backup other than to copy critical   
   >>>> data files to an external device from time to   
   >>>> time. These days I use flash drives.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> If I add an external hard drive to my XP laptop,   
   >>>> can I achieve absolute protection in case the   
   >>>> native drive crashes?   
   >[...]   
   >> I had to rely on #2 a few years ago when I had a clone and not my usual   
   software   
   >> CD-ROM.  A guy used Ghost and it worked fine.   
   >   
   > Yea, that' what I usually use.  You can even create   
   > a bootable disk and clone from there drive to drive,   
   > through various connections.   
   >   
   > Just remember everyone, the drive you're copying   
   > FROM becomes the Slave and the drive you're   
   > copying TO becomes the Master, if you're setting   
   > it up on an IDE chain.  Then you switch the clone   
   > to Slave for restore purposes and unchain it and   
   > your first drive back to the way it was.   
      
   I do not understand "master", "slave", "IDE chain" in my ignorant state.   
      
   If my hard drive crashes, I want to be able to restore my system from   
   an external drive and not have to re-install software and then have to   
   search around for the updates that have occurred since the original   
   installation.   
      
   A neighbor has a newer MAC with an external drive and software called   
   "Carbon Copy Cloner" and he presumably can restore his system from the   
   last complete backup if the native drive crashes. He can actually boot   
   up from the external drive. Please point me to something similar for   
   Win XP.   
      
   TIA   
      
   Kindrick   
      
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