"michael adams" wrote in message
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"Brian Gaff (Sofa)" wrote in message
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Of coursw there are third party back up software about, but none of them are
accessible as they tend to do the back up not actually in Windows, but in their own
cut down OS.
Brian

The reason for that is if the primary drive fails for whatever
reason, then Windows is toast as well. Before Ghost became bloated
with extra features the OS and program would easily fit on a floppy
and could be booted from the floppy as well. Of necessity. Nowadays
it will be a USB thumb drive.

If you have a clone then no problem its just swapped in as a replacement.
But if you have an image on a second disk, which is preferable as it takes
up less space and doesn't monopolise a whole disk, then that can be
reinstalled on a new disc in the primary drive slot from the second disk
in drive 2 using the program. Having booted from the USB thumb drive.
So no need for Windows at that stage. Windows should reappear, hopefully,
once the transfer is complete and yoiu restart the machine.

Showing my age again. The image could of course also be reinstalled from
a disk in an external hard drive.


I'm not sure how Windows would handle an image reinstall in those
circumstances.



michael adams

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