Can i copy partion of 'C' & 'D' as two file one for C & other for D which can be restore also when iwant ! ?

I HAVE THREE PARTIONE C %26amp; D %26amp; E. BUT C %26amp; D BOTH HAVE OPERATING SYSTEM - C HASE WIN98SE %26amp; D HAS WINXP. I CAN START ONE OF THEM BY SELECT OPERATING SYSTEM ONE BY ONE IT MEANS THAT I CAN START WIN98SE OR XP ON MY PC.NOW I WANT A DOSE PROGRAMME THAT CAN SIMPLE COPY AS AN ONE FILE FOR PARTITION C %26amp; ANOTHER FOR D WHICH I CAN RESTORE WHEN I WANT!!? IT MEANS THAT I CAN SAVE MY ALL RUNNING SOFTWARE, ITS KEYS, DATA, FILES, %26amp; CONFIGRATION. THE PARTION 'E' FOR IMPORTANT DATA WHICH IS DEFOLT SAVE BY 'C' OR 'D'. FOR EXAMPLE EMAIL DATA FOLDER. OR MY DOCUMENT ETC AND ALSO FOLDERS FOR SETUP PROGRAMM LIKE AS WIN98SE, WINXPSP2, OFFICEXP, DISPLAY DRIVER. ODIO VIDIO DRIVER, MOTHER BOARD DRIVER ETC CAN SOME ONE HELP ME OR GIVE SOFTWARE FOR ABOVE ??? PL GUIDE ME SOME ONE. PL ALSO NOTE THAT I HAVE NORTON GHOST 6 PRG, BUT IT CANT TAKE A COPY AS SINGLE FILE OFF DRIVE 'D' AND RESTORE IT.


I WANT TO TAKE A SINGLE COPY AS A FILE OFF DRIVE 'D' BY DOSE PRG AND RESTORE IT ON DRIVE 'D' WHICH IS RUN BY COMAND PROMT

Can i copy partion of 'C' %26amp; 'D' as two file one for C %26amp; other for D which can be restore also when iwant ! ?
you cannot simply copy and paste working program files. What you have to do is clone them.





When you copy a cd, the burner program clones an image, then copies the image to the new disk.





On hard drives we use Norton Ghost to create an image of the hard drive.





In your case we create an image of C drive and store it on D drive., Or an external USB drive.





The image of each drive will be about 60% of the size of the data you have on the drive.


eg if you have 17gig data, the image be about 9 - 10 gig.





Here is more general info:


Partition the Hard drive – reasons


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Firstly C drive is compulsory for the Operating System (XP) (Vista), and you install all your programs on C drive.





D drive is made for YOUR files.





What you do is MOVE my documents to D drive.





When you download music, videos, pictures from your camera or make any MS Office documents or save emails, you save it on D drive.





The reason for this is to do with


1. Hard drive failure - usually a failed hard drive will not boot, but can often be seen when hooked up as a slave.


So when you get your new hard drive up and running, you can copy D drive from your old to your new. You haven’t lost anything.





2. Virus. Normally virus are programmed to infect C drive. If you get a bad virus all that has to be done is format the C drive partition then re install you OS and programs from disks.


You haven’t lost your personal stuff because its on D drive.





3. Scanning your C drive for virus or spyware. These malware programs live on C drive. It is not necessary to scan D drive. It is a lot quicker to scan a small partition than a large hard drive.








Now you can see the above is compromised by the fact that programs get updates and lots of programs are installed from the net. Therefore if you had to wipe out C drive it be hard to get it back to how it was.


To remedy this we use Norton Ghost to image C drive and store the Image on D drive.


(Vista requires a version 10 or newer of Ghost).





If you get a bad virus you just use the Ghost disk to boot up on, then copy the image stored on D drive back over C drive.


It takes less than 30 mins to rebuild C drive.


Also you may have this running on say a 250 gig HDD, and it fails. You buy a new 400 gig HDD and install both into you computer, the failed one as a slave.


Using the ghost disk to boot up on, you partition the 400 C drive to 30 gig (XP)and the remaining to D drive. Then you repack C drive from the image. Then Copy your old D drive files to your new one. In a time of less than 1 hour and it’s all running. The image loads all the drivers, OS everything.





Then you update new images of C drive every few months so that the one stored on D drive is not to far out of date.








On XP and Vista you create C drive to a maximum of (XP 30 gig, Vista 40 Gig) It doesn’t need to be any bigger, so don’t make C drive to big as you will not use it.
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