Thanks for the info, James.

Alex

>I just switched over to backing up my system nightly to an external hard drive using Acronis True Image. It's like ghost and works well for me.
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>During the beta releases of Visual Studio 2005 the versions of the .Net framework on my system got all screwy and I played with it enough so that finally my Tablet PC wouldn't boot. Not to fret, I just pulled my Tablet's hard drive and put it in an external USB enclosure. Then I connected both the Tablet PC drive and the external hard drive with the backups to another computer and restored the image from the backup to my Tablet PC drive. I stuck it back in my Tablet and everything worked fine. It rebuilt the partitions and everything.
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>Of course you can backup to DVD's or what have you as well.
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>Also, note that if I had a system with an internal DVD drive I could have just booted of the bootable media that Acronis allows you to build, but lacking an internal DVD drive on my tablet I had to pull the hard drive out.
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>Aloha,
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>James
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>>Hi,
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>>Having just gone through a had disk replacement I am investigating backup software. We make backups of the programs we develop and data into zip files that are later copied to DVD, but not of system files and other programs.
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>>Would appreciate recommendations. Ideally it would be an automated system.
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>>TIA,
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>>Alex