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If you backup to a separate partition on the same drive, you can reformat and reinstall to the original partition without erasing your backup.

That said, it's a bad idea to rely on this style backup.

If the drive itself fails, you've lost everything.

You need to backup to separate media, like CD-R(W) or another hard drive.

My favorite is using an external hard drive.

They're a bit pricey but they're fast, and I can store it in the safe between backups.

(I burn CDs every so often as well).

The bottom line is you want a backup set that you can store in a different location, so you have your data in case of disaster.

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And don't forget to test whether you can get your data back from the backups.

I've had one bad experience with unreadable backup sets and that's a hard lesson to learn.

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