From: Allan Ballard (aballard_at_ix.netcom.com)
Date: Fri Sep 08 2000 - 19:33:20 EDT
In the olden days, we copied a W95 to a different drive
on the same pc via DOS. I still have the switches
around here somewhere. It had to run from a
W95 DOS window, and worked very well.
On Fri, 8 Sep 2000 17:53:32 -0500, Ronald W. Heiby wrote:
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>Friday, September 08, 2000, 4:01:02 PM, jbrush wrote:
>> I have 98 on my thinkpad,and since its only a small drive, I would
>> like to copy the whole drive onto my desktop via the parallel port
>> (no network yet) and burn a CD in the event of a failure, or if I do
>> get a larger drive.
>
>I don't know what kind of ThinkPad you have, but I assume you are
>involving the desktop unit just because that's where the CD-R / CD-RW
>drive lives. I don't know whether what I do will be possible for you,
>but here goes.
>
>I use a really nifty program called Drive Image, from PowerQuest (the
>folks who also put out Partition Magic. I have my drive divided into
>(mostly) "bite sized" chunks of about 2 Gig. Pretty much all of my
>software lives on C: and D:. My "home directory" containing files that
>I work with and create (rather than install) live on E:. F: has mostly
>just temporary stuff (TEMP directory, Internet Explorer Cache, SWP
>file, stuff downloaded from the Internet, and a bunch of empty space).
>
>Using Drive Image, I create a backup of C: and D: together, telling it
>to put no more than 650 million bytes in each chunk. Right now, this
>gives me two chunks. I can ship those over to my desktop via Ethernet
>if I want. But, I find it easier to just burn them onto CD from an
>Adaptec 1460A PCMCIA SCSI card plugged into my 770ED. For E:,
>"depending on my mood", I either use WinZip to create an easily used
>and transported backup of my home directory tree, or I use Drive
>Image. Either way, I burn the results onto CD-R. Most of the stuff on
>F: does not need to get backed up, so it doesn't. All backups I do
>wind up (temporarily) on F: and are burned to CD-R from there. Since
>the stuff I "install" onto C:/D: changes less often than the stuff I
>work with every day on E:, E: gets backed up more frequently.
>
>I think Drive Image only runs in DOS mode, and I think that the
>destination for its backup files needs to look like a file system
>location when it runs, so this might be a problem for you.
>
>I assume that you at least have a CD-ROM drive on your ThinkPad, so
>you don't need to worry about getting communication established with
>your desktop before you do the restore operation. You probably just
>need a boot floppy with software sufficient to Format and FDISK your
>hard drive, perhaps a simple text editor, driver software to provide
>access to your backup media, and your backup restoration software. (Be
>sure to test your boot floppy and backup media before you need them!)
>
>I think I just read about an updated version of Drive Image that knows
>enough about Linux partitions to do a smarter job of backing them up
>than the version I have. The idea there is that rather than just doing
>a full sector by sector image backup, it backs up just the sectors
>that have something actually allocated to them. This is the case with
>various DOS/Win file system types with the version of Drive Image I
>currently have.
>
>Ron.
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