backing up a whole hard disk

[gaf at blu.org (Jerry Feldman)]

On Thursday 12 May 2005 1:23 pm, Robert L Krawitz wrote:

>    It should work perfectly. The only potential issue with backing up
>    hard drive images like that  is you might not be able to restore it to
>    a disk of different geometry (think disaster-recovery situation), but
>    putting it back on the original drive shouldn't be a problem.
>
> I've backed up individual partitions that way.  As long as you restore
> the dump onto a partition at least as large you shouldn't have any
> grief.  Dumping an entire disk that way might cause geometry problems.
For the most part, a file-by-file backup will work fine even for Windows. I 
do that for Windows 9x, and the only additional action needed when 
restoring is to run the SYS utility. I'm not 100% sure what you would need 
to do with Windows 2K or XP.
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