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how to back up windows, not the whole drive?



 
 
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Old November 30th 04, 11:24 AM
Con Shea
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Find a spare partition on the existing drive or a second drive, install
XP on it. Then boot to the new XP. Run the built-in backup program to
back up your old XP files to a .bkf file. Restore later to the exact
same settings.

This is completely free. No need to spend money on imaging software.

..cs

Doc wrote:
How could I backup windows XP so that I could restore it to the exact
settings I have in place without having to backup the entire drive?

Thanks


 




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