In article m, brass
monkey writes

"The Natural Philosopher" wrote in message
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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...le-Black-Slim-
External-Mobile-USB2.0-Hard-Disk_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.

I find imaging to a USB drive is useful for me. If it goes tits-up, rather
than finding out why, I just recover the image and I have the machine back
up in ~10mins.

If you mean taking regular images, I think that's ok unless the system
drive is going bad and you restore an image with some corrupt files in
the system or the apps that result in instability in the restored
system.

You're also restoring the bloat that inevitably accumulates in a windows
system that people are playing with and installing bits & pieces on.
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fred
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