What is the Best Way to Back Up Entire Dual Boot HDD including two OS ?

Discussion in 'Software' started by mike2op, Jun 26, 2008.

  1. mike2op

    mike2op Private First Class

    Hi,

    I would like to back up my whole Hard Disk including OS & all partitions few times a day everyday so that if something goes wrong I should have another Hard Disk Ready To Go in matter of few minutes without having to do anything.

    I have been doing this with a software called XACT Copy that makes an exact copy of the whole hard disk on a slave drive with OS & all the settings & programs & all the data. In case something goes wrong with one drive I can just replace it with a second drive in less than a minute by connecting the second drive.

    The only problem with that software is that it works only with Windows XP & not Windows Vista.

    But now am switching to dual boot system with Win XP on C drive & Windows Vista (Ultimate) on the next drive to learn Vista before I switch completely to Vista as my main OS.

    Can you guys tell me how do I achieve my above objective ?

    Raid -1 is not a good alternative because if Virus is caught it will corrupt both drives and I am not sure if Raid-1 will work with Dual Boot system.

    Please help me.

    Thank You Very Much.
     
  2. DavidGP

    DavidGP MajorGeeks Forum Administrator - Grand Pooh-Bah Staff Member

    Hi

    Have you had a look at Acronis True Image? ( 15day trial )
    Its clone option could work and if not you should be able to image the two partitions seperatly, sadly not got a dual boot setup at present to test.
     

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