Dear Friends.
I want to be prepared with a backup when my C: drive (Windows XP) goes out.
To start, I have two installed internal physical hard-drives and three physical externals connected.
The general plan I have, and that I need help with, is to clone my C: drive with the Acronis program to another partitioned, formatted internal drive via a USB connection and make it an active partition. Then, when my working C: gives up the ghost, simply yank out the dead drive, install the cloned drive and have a working computer.
I already have a new external drive partitioned and formatted through a USB connection using Norton's Partition Magic, but it showed up as drive H: during the process. It will have to appear as drive C: and as an active partiton to actually be used. How is that to be managed? I haven't done the cloning yet. The drive is empty.
That's the general theoretical idea. What changes are needed to make the plan actually work?
Regards,
Jack Owens