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Date:	Thu, 8 Dec 2005 19:54:50 PST8
From:	Martin Rosenfeld <rosenfeldmj@comcast.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Backing up the unmentionable...?

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J R:

> >I suppose
> >> DFSee would do this too.
>
>
> That's definitely the method of choice: a full
> bit-level imaging of the W2K boot partition by DFSEE.
> I recommend the partition's having passed the W2K
> equivalent of Autocheck (the CHECKDISK that should
> take place at bootup) before you make the image. A
> partition defrag before imaging wouldn't hurt either.
> I further recommend that you make a no-compression
> image. (This is the product of hard experience. I've
> lost two W2K partitions on each of two machines.
> Lost, as in unrecoverable. But *none* that couldn't
> be restored successfully, since I started doing it
> this way.)

So, you advise any Win2K backup be made with Win2K software or
DFSee to a Win2K file system. I understand your advice and I
can imagine why it is the wisest position.

Martin

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