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From: Norm Cook on 27 Mar 2010 07:25 Is it necessary to be in Safe Mode when performing a full C Drive (OS) backup to an external USB drive? I did this once before and I had to reload my soundcard drivers. My thought was copying system files and other Windows files (services, etc) caused this.
From: Pegasus [MVP] on 27 Mar 2010 07:33 "Norm Cook" <normcook(a)cableone.net> wrote in message news:OKf7LBazKHA.5940(a)TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl... > Is it necessary to be in Safe Mode when performing > a full C Drive (OS) backup to an external USB drive? > > I did this once before and I had to reload my soundcard > drivers. My thought was copying system files and other > Windows files (services, etc) caused this. There are a couple of "no"s here. - You cannot back up drive C: to an external medium, neither in Normal Mode nor in Safe Mode. In both modes, certain system files are locked. Here are a few options to do it: a) By using an imaging program such as Acronis TrueImage. b) By booting the machine with a boot CD such as a Bart PE boot CD or a Windows 7 Repair CD. c) By connecting the disk as a slave disk to some other machine. - Copying files will not affect your existing installation unless you select some robocopy switch that will delete source files. It would be a good idea to say what exactly you're trying to achieve.
From: Jim on 27 Mar 2010 09:13 On Sat, 27 Mar 2010 06:25:44 -0500, "Norm Cook" <normcook(a)cableone.net> wrote: > >Is it necessary to be in Safe Mode when performing >a full C Drive (OS) backup to an external USB drive? > >I did this once before and I had to reload my soundcard >drivers. My thought was copying system files and other >Windows files (services, etc) caused this. > Not an answer , but , why use robocopy ?
From: Craig S on 27 Mar 2010 09:31 Pegasus - Anyone, until he answers and assuming his goal is just OS backup from corruption x,y,z, , Imaging Software allows, I think, (ie) Dbl-Clk an ..xml File or Clk a Restore Icon to Inject the back-up OS Copy in place of the "problem OS"- BUT it seems if a Boot CD is ever required (Bart PE, etc) they all want access to i386 Installation Files to Make the CD, which MANY owners don't have via Mfg'er Loaded OS's and NO Install Disks (my C:\i386 shows EMPTY! D: Recovery Partition back to Day 1 would be Hell to Update from after 3 years! Will you address this possible issue when answering his Reply? "Pegasus [MVP]" wrote: > > > "Norm Cook" <normcook(a)cableone.net> wrote in message > news:OKf7LBazKHA.5940(a)TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl... > > Is it necessary to be in Safe Mode when performing > > a full C Drive (OS) backup to an external USB drive? > > > > I did this once before and I had to reload my soundcard > > drivers. My thought was copying system files and other > > Windows files (services, etc) caused this. > > There are a couple of "no"s here. > - You cannot back up drive C: to an external medium, neither > in Normal Mode nor in Safe Mode. In both modes, certain > system files are locked. Here are a few options to do it: > a) By using an imaging program such as Acronis TrueImage. > b) By booting the machine with a boot CD such as a Bart > PE boot CD or a Windows 7 Repair CD. > c) By connecting the disk as a slave disk to some other machine. > - Copying files will not affect your existing installation unless > you select some robocopy switch that will delete source files. > > It would be a good idea to say what exactly you're trying to achieve. > > . >
From: Patrick Keenan on 27 Mar 2010 15:43 "Jim" <bojimbo261(a)googlemail.com> wrote in message news:321sq5l6hjt9flop95mq9l1bc32vtmn5tk(a)4ax.com... > On Sat, 27 Mar 2010 06:25:44 -0500, "Norm Cook" > <normcook(a)cableone.net> wrote: > >> >>Is it necessary to be in Safe Mode when performing >>a full C Drive (OS) backup to an external USB drive? >> >>I did this once before and I had to reload my soundcard >>drivers. My thought was copying system files and other >>Windows files (services, etc) caused this. >> > > Not an answer , but , why use robocopy ? I suspect that some people 'remember' that you could sometimes create bootable file sets with xcopy. This hasn't worked for perhaps a couple of decades.
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