I want to back up my C drive while it is new and running good. I have 120 GB in C and 120 In my New volume. I also have Norton's 9.0 and I was wondering if just copying my C drive to my new volume is that considered a "backup? If not can anyone give me any good insight on how to back up my Drive please.
View 6 RepliesI am working with a Dell 2400 running Windows XP Service Pack 3 with a Pentium 4 2.8 GHz processor and 1.2 gig of ram. It still seems particularly slow. I am not sure if it some of the applications that I am running like Norton 360 or some of my settings.
View 6 Replies View Relatedthis might seem a lame question here but can someone please tell me how to make a Bootable CD so i can boot my computer from this bootable CD and reformat my C drive without using my windows cd.
View 10 Replies View RelatedI just made a backup of my HD with Paragon to an external drive. That went as advertised. FIne and dandy.I now say to myself "SELF"? what will I do if my PC becomes completely hosed and will not even boot.I know. I will have a nice doorstop.Now my question is can I make a bootable flash drive to restore my backup I see the option is there but I have seen more than once researching with Google that this will not work. Seems to me doing this with CDs would require a dozen in my case. My computer does not support DVD.
View 7 Replies View RelatedI have this sony vaio laptop, and the good people at sony decided not to give this drive the ability to boot from a usb device (external dvd or floppy)Unfortunately the DVD drive that was built in BROKE, and I need to install windows on this laptop using a brand new hard drive.I can't boot from the windows dvd, I can't boot from a floppy, the drive is totally empty so I can't put anything on it.I CAN however, connect it to another computer and format it, I thought I could make it into a MSDOS bootable drive (like when you format a floppy) but windows does not allow it on a drive this size.
View 13 Replies View RelatedI've been trying to solve this for a few days now and I'm not having any luck. I don't have access to a PC running a windows OS or I'd just set up the flash drive there.
View 2 Replies View RelatedWhen installing a larger main drive, how do I get the drivers copied onto the slave before I take out the main one I wonder is there a simple way of doing this, I am using Windows XP home edition, the PC is an oldish one and isn't any specific make, so I can't get any clever programs from the manufacturers site
View 3 Replies View RelatedThis is really a question more than a problem. I'm running a PC with 2 HDs. I am changing the boot drive C: for a larger disk. Now ordinarily I would use a backup program like Ghost or whatever. Now my situation is slightly different in that most of my startup programs are installed on my second HD E:, the C: drive being the boot drive with XP installed.
What my intention is. Is to take out drive E: Then replace that with my new drive. Then I was going to boot in Safe Mode and use the Windows Files & Transfer wizard to copy the C: drive to The new drive. The last thing to do then is swap the C: with the newly installed drive and replace the original E: drive. I hope that all makes sense.
It is still functioning fine. BUT when I click on Computer from the Start Menu, All my drives and CD roms are listed EXCEPT DRIVE-C! I am able to access the drive for cleaning thru Windows XP prof. but Drive-C Could not be accessed on Norton Defragmenter for some reason.I contacted Gateway Support with no soltuoin.
View 16 Replies View RelatedReceiving the following on boot up: PROCESS1_INITIALIZATION_FAILED All searches indicate GoBack by Roxio or Norton. Neither installed - Do not want to reinstall or format drive.
View 1 Replies View RelatedUsing Norton Ghost 9 and Acronis TrueImage 11 on Windows XP service pack 3. Disk cacheing is turned off on all drives and external Drive S is set optimized for quick removal.
Windows - Delayed Write Failed Windows was unable to save all the data for the file S:System Volume Information racking.log.tmp. The data has been lost. This error may be caused by a failure of your computer hardware or network connection. Please try to save this file elsewhere. System Restore is turned off on all drives. When I attempt to write an image of 1.5-TB internal drive R onto external USB 1.5-TB drive S, Ghost hangs permanently at 2% with no error message.
Acronis Error on attempting to write image of 1.5-TB internal drive R onto 1.5-TB external USB drive S: ERROR E00070021 Unable to create volume snapshot
I have two hard drives connected to my system. I will refer to them as A and B. I had previously taken a Ghost image of drive A and wanted to restore this image to the drive. However, both the drive were connected to the system when the restore occurred and the image got restored to drive B. Hence I have lost the data I had on drive B. The operating system in use is Windows XP. The version of Ghost used is Norton Ghost 2001
View 4 Replies View RelatedI made some holiday videos and saved them to DVD. They are about 2.1 gigs each. Now I want to edit them I cant copy them to my hard drive. Loads of room but it just comes up with 49 minutes left and keeps going. If I look at the properties of the file on the harddisk it's the right size as if it's been copied. The problem is that it never seems to finish and if I cancel the file disappears.
View 8 Replies View RelatedWith the help of CNET my computer is back up and running, but I need more advice now. I formatted the hard drive to get rid of a trojan, and reinstalled stuff. Previously I had changed MY Documents from C Drive to D and made it the default, and I can't remember how I did it, I should have written it down!!
My netbook is a Wind, 120GB HD 1GBRam, intel processor, XP SP3
Which is better?, Norton ghost, or Norton save and restore? also which if either, is compatible with Norton go-back?
View 3 Replies View RelatedI have a Dell computer where one of the loading .dll files came up 'missing' one day, so it won't boot. I want to get all the photos and other docs off the hard drive. I had downloaded one version of linux and was able to see the files on the internal hard drive, but was unable to copy them to a memory stick or external hard drive. Now I've downloaded ubuntu and booted off a memory stick... this time, it's telling me that the internal hard drive has all kinds of bad sectors and won't let me access any of the files on there.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI need to move XP to a new hard drive. I'm looking for a free and easy way
to copy the data over. Will xxcopy work alright with moving the files over?
Is there any way i can get a copy of my OS (WIN EX) based on my cert #? My SATA hard drive crashed - literally smoked- and my OS is on that HD. It was pre-installed with nothing but a recovery disk.
View 6 Replies View RelatedI would like to know if I can copy my whole hard drive to a backup hard drive. What I would like to do is buy a new hard drive for my laptop. Then move all and I do mean everything windows XP etc. to the new hard drive. So that I could the start using the new hard drive just like the old hard drive. I think my old hard drive is going bad.
View 7 Replies View RelatedMy hard drive just changed to fat32 for some reason and all the data is gone? Does anyone know what could be wrong, can I get my data back? When I start it up it goes through a check, ive left the check running and its been going ages, im not sure what its doing. Says something about lost clusters and truncated?
View 1 Replies View RelatedIm having a problem trying to move a photo (JPEG) from any folder to my dvd Burner drive which is D drive in my case. The error Im getting is 'Problem Moving' Windows has encountered a problem when trying to move this file. What do you want windows to do? Retry, Skip or cancel.. Im using Windows XP home ed.I used to be able to do this and for some reason it wont allow me now. Im able to copy in between folders but not to the D drive
View 1 Replies View RelatedI am trying to copy some files to a CD Disk, so that I can open them on a different computer. I have put a disk in the drive, highlighted the file, clicked on "send to", and I get the message: "Please insert a disk into Drive E (or F, whichever I happen to try it with)".The drives won't recognize that there is a blank CD. If I put in an audio CD or a DVD, it recognizes it, and plays it fine. It's just the blank ones that are giving me a problem. I have tried several different brands of CD . . . same result . . . "Please insert a disk into drive"
View 1 Replies View RelatedIn case you have read my other post(s), I am trying to sort out multiple problems (one related to Windows 7 and one related to XP).
laptop running XP SP3 (32-bit). Just before I take the big step (of doing a fresh install) I made a image on the D: partition with Norton Ghost 12. All went well. Now just in case murphy strikes, I tried to copy the image folder (created by NG12) to my external USB drive
I have a file folder that is 247 MB on XP that I'm trying to copy to my external Passport Hard drive. I've been able to copy all files to the external except this one, but every time I try it elicits an Error Copying File or Folder ie. "Cannot Copy File". What's up with that?
View 1 Replies View RelatedSo I have a laptop without a CD drive and I've done this before so I know it came be done, just can't seem to find the googled page that i found last time with the how to. I want to take the laptop HD out and put it into a USB mobile disk enclosure, then from my desktop in my windows xp RUN command I wanna set the XP CD in the drive to copy all its install files to the blank HD and start the XP installation but NOT RESTART after its done. Then take the HD out of the enclosure, pop it back into the laptop, boot up and have the install do the rest from there.
View 4 Replies View RelatedMy computer got a harsh virus on it that is giving me problems so i'm left with no choice but to reformat it.
but here is my problem..
when i get to the partition part of the installation, it shows that i have 2 drives.
C: my main drive that has 70GB
D: Recovery drive that has 10 GB...
so, how should i approach this.
I just want 1 copy of windows XP running on my computer.
i am try 2 put things on 2 a usb device but it keeps coming up say this can not copy the disk is write protected remove the write protection is there anyway i can fix this thanks
View 11 Replies View RelatedI turned on my computer today and everything's messed up. I'm running windows XP on a Sony Vaio (about 6 yrs. old). I have 2 separate CD drives, and my computer won't recognize them. Sometimes when I restarted it'd recognize one of them. When I'm in the BIOS screen it only shows 1 CD drive. I can't copy or backup files; I wanted to backup so I could revert back to factory settings. I also can't install or uninstall anything. My anti-virus program (McAfee) says it has updated, but when I run a scan it says my definitions are 5 months out of date. It suddenly takes a really long time to boot up.
View 3 Replies View RelatedEASY way to copy my hard drive to a bootable CD? I think the HDD I have now is dying, and I would like to have a hard drive I can just pop in which has all the information I have now. I have heard horror stories about Norton Ghost, so I'm hesitant there. I also bought a product called Drivecopy...BEFORE I learned that it is not compatible with XP Pro. Ghost and Drivecopy are both PowerQuest products. I have been told that if you simply copy one drive to another it will not be bootable because of some hidden/missing files that Windows uses. I have also heard that most products which are SUPPOSED to do what I want will only work on drives the exact same size and will duplicate my smaller partition if I go to a larger drive. There MUST be an easy way, but I'm stumped.
View 14 Replies View RelatedAfter thinking my computer was running well I made a restore point to that effect, after defragging and using check disc. I continued using my computer and a couple of times rebooted without problems after installing windows updates. The next morning when booting up I was completely locked out at the welcome page, asking me to validate my copy of Windows. This I did over 4 years ago, and would have ticked the box to say yes, unfortunately the mouse locked.
I have put another copy of XP onto my D: drive to get here and write this, but with only 25 days for activation, which I do not want. Has anybody any idea please what has happened. I do have back-ups but they would only work if I reformatted my C: drive which is a lot of bother. I have tried starting in safe mode, last good known configuration, but it always locks at the welcome screen.
A Norton popup keeps asking if I want to close Windows firewall. Is there a problem using both firewalls at the same time
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