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To: stock bull who wrote (48721)12/17/2005 5:33:17 PM
From: thecow  Read Replies (2) of 110599
 
Ensure your hard drive is free from virus, spyware, etc.

Absolutely

I keep my images on an internal hard drive but they are the only things on the drive. I may be wrong here, but I don't think it's possible to infect an image file on another physical drive. If it is and somebody wants to go to that much trouble to mess up my image files...well...he/she is way too good to be wasting their time trying to screw my computer up. Yes, the ideal solution would be to use an external drive and store it at a different location to ward off physical disasters (fire, flood, etc.) doing your computer in.

when one images a drive, do you have to shut down all the programs that are running in the background? How about all the "processes" that are running in XP?

No. Acronis and other imaging programs make a byte for byte or bit for bit exact copy of the disk. When I have restored, you go through a process of booting to the Acronis boot program and you actually delete the Windows partitions and Acronis takes their compressed image and copies it to your now empty disk, restoring to the exact shape your machine was in when you made the image. You can also do incremental images that just record the changes made since the last image but I prefer to do the whole deal.
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