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"Andy Burns" wrote in message
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Dave Plowman (News) wrote:

I
did wonder if I could simply copy the HD on the other PC which runs the
same XP. Like I could do on the Acorns. ;-)

Pretty much, though XP itself won't help you, to do it under Windows
you need something like Acronis or DriveImage or Ghost.



I thought about keeping a backup of my windows install with a disk
image for a very fast recovery .... are any of the above freeware ?

DriveimageXML is free, the others afaik aren't. You could also try
gparted or clonezilla live cds.

http://www.runtime.org/driveimage-xml.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GParted
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clonezilla
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