Re: [ARSCLIST] creating access cd's

[Don Cox <doncox@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 27/01/06, steven c wrote:
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Don Cox" <doncox@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> One of the biggest nuisances in Windows is that you cannot simply
>> back up C: in any simple way. Being used to the Amigas, where you can
>> simply copy all the files on the system partition to a CD, I find
>> this tiresome.
>> 
> There is software available that allows a user to "clone"
> drives...that is to copy the entire contents of a drive to another
> one. However, with current drive sizes reaching 250GB and up...copying
> your HD to CD-R's would be much like copying old 40 or 65MB drives to
> floppies!

The problem really is the C: drive, which for some reason contains
numerous uncopiable files. It ought to be possible to simply copy the
system partition of a computer to a CD (perhaps with a second CD for
fonts if the OS is very large). There should be no need to but extra
programs.

The result is that the system usually does not get backed up, and the
equipment is unreliable.
> 
> For example. it would take over a hundred CD-R's to copy my 80GB HD,
> assuming it was pretty well full (which it would be if I could convert
> 78's to sound files, in short order...)

Backing up data files is not such a problem. 

Regards
-- 
Don Cox
doncox@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx