RE: [PCTECH] W98 to W2K upgrades

["Dan Bale" <dbale@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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> From: pctech-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx / daparnin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Sent: Thursday, September 16, 2004 10:24 AM
>
> I'm not afraid, I'm paranoid.  Luckily, I've got a big hard drive on MY PC
> to help aleve my paranoia.  Typically if I'm going to do a reload I copy
> the ENTIRE hard drive to a folder on my PC (files, programs,
> Windows--everything).  Do the reload, copy stuff back, reload
> programs, and
> then wait.  After about a month if it's not needed or asked for I don't
> feel so bad about deleting the backup folder on my PC.
>
> I also have nightly, weekly, and monthly backups scheduled on a server PC
> to back up e-mail and files for everybody's individual PC's.  Did
> I mention that I was paranoid?

Typically, backing up from within Windows will NOT backup everything.  As I
understand it, any files "locked" / "in use" by Windows cannot be allocated
and, therefore, is not backed up.  You seem to imply that you have
"reloaded" from a "copy (of) the hard drive", so I don't know if this
applies or not.

This was touched on a month or two ago on this list, so you might want to
check the archives, but I'd recommend for the paranoid to look at the
shareware products found at http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/.  I have been
using the DOS IMAGE and it works very well, both on the save & the restore
side.  The 30-day trials are full-featured.

hth,
db