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Date:	Mon, 19 Sep 2005 12:08:33 PDT7
From:	Ray Davison <raydav@charter.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Archiving a volume...?

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J R FOX wrote:
> I've been doing rotating
> clone-backups, with identical WD 80G drives . . .
> though my intention is to switch to Seagate 120G
> drives in the near future.

No need for the HDDs to match.

> I think it would be better to boot up this
> way In Any Case (you need to boot with a DOS boot
> disk, before you can run either program), because then
> your HDDs are spinning, but neither HDD _belongs_ to
> any OS *on* one of them, if you know what I mean.
> That is going to give you the maximum freedom, safety,
> and room to maneuver.

This is what I call making the HDD inert; it is just a bunch of
magnetic stuff. The only problem I have ever had with PM, was when I
was running it from D:, and I moved free space from F: to C:. That
meant it had to go thru D:. When the dust settled there was no D:.
Everything was FAT16. Norton Disk Doctor for DOS fixed it.
>
> When the Target drive is NOT bare, I wipe it with
> zeros prior to cloning. Why ? Because I've found
> it to be the soundest method. Other boot partitions
> (like eCS) may or may not care, but the Win-32 boot
> partitions show a definite propensity towards getting
> screwed up, or even turning out unbootable, when you
> simply overwrite them,

Unnecessary. You do not "overwrite" a partition. You need free
space. Therefore if there is something already there, you delete it.
It is no longer a partition. I am going to guess that your problem
was whatever Win did to the MBR, not the partition.
>
> In deference to Svobi and Peter, I have done this
> many, many times, and haven't screwed up yet. (Knock
> wood.)
>
> Trust me, and I know Peter will squawk loudly if I
> fail to mention this, but you definitely want to carry
> out this operation while running off of a good UPS !

What for? The worst thing that can happen is that your copy will be
bad and you will have to do it again. The only UPS I have is on my
digital video recorder.

Ray

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