The Natural Philosopher wrote:
John Rumm wrote:
On 07/04/2012 19:14, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
Martin wrote:
On Sat, 07 Apr 2012 15:58:54 +0100, The Natural Philosopher
wrote:

Mentalguy2k8 wrote:
"Wesley" wrote in message
o.uk...
Can I use something like this to backup my PC. Its making funny
noises at the moment and I would like to back up the hard disc
including the OS. I'm using Windows XP.

http://www.tekheads.co.uk/product/32...isk_34766.html


Yes, as long as it's big enough to hold all your stuff.

I have never seem thepoint of backing up a nasty windows equipped
unreliable PC onto something even nastier cheaper and more
unreliable, frankly.

If you don't know, why not say so?

Ok then, no you cant use something like that to back up windows
because in my EXPERIENCE - not opinion - what actually will die on
you irrecoverably is the stupid storage device you used for backup.

However for the purposes of this exercise - i.e. preserving an image
of a working system until a new drive can be procured, its perfectly
adequate. ?

?what? why not install onto the new drive and simply mount the other
drive and copy what you want from it?

Lot more farting around than with cloning.

And you dont even know that the original drive does need replacing,
it could just as easily be a fan bearing failing and he wont actually
need a new drive at all, just a decent backup in case it does ever die.

(having said that, if you need to order the external drive, you may
as well get the replacement drive at the same time, and then clone
the system twice - once onto the new drive, then onto the external).