Creat shadow disk w/ boot diskette to recover XP

[redcatman74]

Running W XP Home Edition SP2 that is current.  I want to create a shadow disk that mirrors my primary physical drive that has one partition - C: - to my second physical drive H: that has only one primary partition.   Both drives are 60 gb.  I only have the recover CD that came with the system, not the pure XP CD.
  
Question is based on the premise that if Drive C: fails I want to be able to recover possibly by:

1 - booting directly to drive H: (I don't have a boot manager that I can use at this time), or

2 - after I physically move the H: drive to the C: location boot up as if nothing had happened.

I have the NT backup utility that I have been using to backup drive C: to H: but I am not sure whether or not it creates a bootable partition.  I don't have a CD RW that works at this time, only a diskette drive and a DVD/CD reader drive.

I would appreciate some advice on how to accomplish this task.

Thanks

redcatman

[GX1_Man]

You need an imaging program. Safer, works and takes up a LOT less space on the drive. What you are planning does not work. You cannot copy files that are in use to run Windows itself. This does work:

http://www.computerhope.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?num=1154041625/0#0