tman70 Posted March 17, 2007 Report Share Posted March 17, 2007 I have finally been able to save enough money to get a copy of XP Home and have installed it on my Dell Millennia. Any problems I have run into have been solved fairly easily and I am able to find where everything is-compared to W98se. I have all my settings and programs the way I want.One problem I have is that I cannot make a clone to another HD.Having at times lost all my information to power failure and/or HD crash, or a bad download, I used xxcopy to clone everything in W98 to another HD so I would have a replacement if it ever happened again. I would just replace it as a master and go. Now when I try to clone Xp it won't bootup. There are a lot of files that fail to copy. Can Xp be cloned like 98? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
shanenin Posted March 17, 2007 Report Share Posted March 17, 2007 TT left a link about a free version(older version) of Acronis that will clone xp for you. Do a search on the board, I have newer paid version, but the program works great. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
tman70 Posted March 17, 2007 Author Report Share Posted March 17, 2007 Thanks Shanenin but it looks like the free copy is no longer available and I can't afford to pay for one right now. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
sultan_emerr Posted March 17, 2007 Report Share Posted March 17, 2007 Thanks Shanenin but it looks like the free copy is no longer available and I can't afford to pay for one right now.You might check to see if any of these would be of any help to you:http://www.thefreecountry.com/utilities/backupandimage.shtmlhttp://shellcity.net/?egg=b = HDClonehttp://www.pcworld.com/downloads/file_desc...id,23166,00.asphttp://allwaysync.comhttp://www.cdburnerxp.se/index.phphttp://rekenwonder.com/brfcplus.htm Quote Link to post Share on other sites
tman70 Posted March 17, 2007 Author Report Share Posted March 17, 2007 Thanks SultanI'll check them out later.Right now I have found a little tool called xxclone. I have tried it and it seems to be just what I needed(as in free). It has a simple interface and was easy to operate after reading the help file. I ran it and it cloned the C drive to the F drive and had a screen to make it bootable after it was finished cloning. I tried it as a master and it booted right up without any problems.It can be found here: www.xxclone.comIf anyone has tried it and has any comments, I would like to hear about them. As a 2 day newbie to XP Home I guess I am doing good. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
sultan_emerr Posted March 17, 2007 Report Share Posted March 17, 2007 Having at times lost all my information to power failureTo help avoid losing all your information due to a power failure,you might consider an Uninterruptible Power Supply = http://www.officedepot.com/browse.do?Nr=200000&N=265625 Or you may want to use a surge suppressor that ALSO offers a UPS - uninterruptible power supply. = http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?id...1&type=page = "This provides a few minutes of back-up power to allow you to shut down in an orderly manner in case the power goes out. UPS systems are available in a variety of power levels, expressed in VA (voltage amperes)."Uninterruptible Power Supply's from Newegg = http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.....x=0&Go.y=0 How does a computer's uninterruptible power supply (UPS) work? = http://computer.howstuffworks.com/question28.htm How to backup files and folders in XP = http://www.winxptutor.com/ntbackup.htm Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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