Need good home tape backup.

[GlenJohnson]

I'm having problems with a pc I'd rather not lose. This is a home pc, so I'm looking for suggestions on a good tape backup, so I can pull everything off of this drive, put it on a new drive and replace the old one. Suggestions? (Not heard any good word about Norton Ghost.) Glen A. Johnson
Microsoft Certified Professional
glen@nellsgiftbox.com


"A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it."
Jean de La Fontaine (1621-1695); French poet.

 

[RLE]

What O.S. has you PC?

 

[GlenJohnson]

Windows 98 se Glen A. Johnson
Microsoft Certified Professional
glen@nellsgiftbox.com


"A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it."
Jean de La Fontaine (1621-1695); French poet.

 

[Zelandakh]

Glen, ghost is brilliant. I've not had a prob with it, but its not a backup product.

Have you tried a CD burner / zip drive / external media idea? zip drives come with zip backup but are only good for 100mb compressed.

 

[GlenJohnson]

I own a zip drive, but I want the contents of the entire drive moved to another drive. I've not heard of any real luck with ghost. Thanks. Going with external media. Glen A. Johnson
Microsoft Certified Professional
glen@nellsgiftbox.com


"A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it."
Jean de La Fontaine (1621-1695); French poet.

 

[Seizure]

Use the drive manufacturers transfer product for the new drive. Should come with the drive or can be downloaded from their site. They will typically boot a linux or DRDOS shell and copy the old drive system by track and sector. MaxBlast or LifeGuard Tools depending on the new drive vendor. If you don't have a utility and you're in a hurry, install the new drive as D or next partition)format it, use the built-in backup program on 98SE and Backup c: - using Dnew drive) as a target. Make a 98startup disk, copy the sys.com file to the startup disk. Now restore the backup to d:\ - Change the new drive to primary cjumpers to master) - boot the 98 startup floppy - type sys C: - run fdisk to set the new partition as active. Easier to just get the vendor's utility - don't ya think? Jim - Synnex Info Tech

 

[shutech]

Never had a problem with Ghost either with win98 or 2000. I have had several machines that I have done a switch out of drives and they went flawlesly. Why move to a middle media. Hook up the new drive as a slave. You then are not taking a chance of extra coruption by copying the data more times than needed.

Your making this more complicated than it needs to be. I can get a 20 gig drive switched out in under 1 1/2 hours using ghost and never see a problem. Done this numerous times!

 

[Seizure]

Ghost is an excellent product, and has superb capability, but is not free. The utility from Western Digital or Maxtor is free and copies the complete file system from one drive to another without the source OS boot. Boots from a floppy - simple menu. Why buy what you may not use? Jim - Synnex Info Tech