I just reformatted my laptop computer, reinstalled windows, and got all the latest updates for a nice fresh start. That took a bit of work. So I was wondering how to back all this effort up. How could, if I needed to, I simply reformat the hard drive, and insert a backup disc, copy the files over, and be completely restorred.
I think NERO does this. But I only have a cd/dvd combo drive and cannot burn dvd's. I'm using about 8gb of the notebook's hard drive now, and would like to copy it to 2 dvds.
I have a large usb external hard drive, and a second computer that has a dvd burner.
Is it as simple as copying all the files from my notebook hard drive, over to the external usb hard drive, then burning to dvd? If I copied these files back to the blank/formatted hard drive on my notebook, would windows(xp home sp2) work? Doesn't registry files and other hidden stuff not transfer well?
2007-02-26
23:03:34
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westmassboy76
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