Right,
I read the pdf documents that come with Drive Image, and yes Adept is right [as usual] about the image bit.
It's that long ago that I installed Drive Image that I forgot I had made a set of [2]'Drive Image' boot disks. So I tried them on a reboot, and low and behold the PC booted to the Drive Image program allowing you to either copy or install a copy of your drives.
I did a dummy run as if to copy to an external drive, and after highlighting the drives to be imaged, it said it would take between 8 to 15 writable CD's, bloody hell. I would have thought it could have been more explicit than that, least ways ballpark needed assuming you use 700MB disks to backup your particulre image.
Of course on my old PC I added a spare hard drive and installed an OS, programs and data on it. I might just do that again, as it would just be a case of using Drive Image copy facility to update the spare regulary to protect against hard disk faliure. Had a few of them in my time, infact only component that has ever failed on me is hard drives. Of course a 'raid' MOBO means you dont even need software like Drive Image. But on has to work with what ones got and least ways doing an image copy would mean you would not need to download all those security patches and virus updates all over again.
Right a question for the pros, most likely Adept and Lobo [know offence intended to others
] I believe you can install a hard drive bay adapter that enables you to plug in a removeble hard drive [eternally] so that you can keep a backup copy of your system safe incase you get the PC nicked, are they called 'addies' and do you just use ordinary hard drives as you would if installing internally?
Cheers
I do hope joudi is taking this all in
