backups, can you restore?
One thing about backups is working out how to do a restore when the disk has crashed and the operating system is lost. Many of the third party software requires a program to be running to carry out a restore, and for the program to run you need an operating system that works. There are also many of us (me included until I found out the hard way) that the only time you find the restore function doesn’t work as advertised or requires operating systems, programs and drivers, or the media is damaged is when the original is lost. i.e. too late.
So the challenge is do a restore today before its too late, find out how to do it and what’s required, specially, if like many, you have no operating system cd, think what would be required if it was a brand new disk with nothing on it at all.
The MSbackup includes an option to back up the complete system and creates a floppy disk to start the restore process in the event of a major failure, this is included within XP. works ok for me.
Rickity