Will WinXP Pro allow one to do an image backup of a hard drive (scsi) and
then replace the hard drive and restore the image onto the replacement hard
drive (same computer, just different HD) ? Or will the built-in WinXP
licensing features not allow this ? A scsi drive is going bad on one
workstation and it would be nice if we could avoid installing the OS from
scratch and having to resinstall all of the apps. TIA ...

Windows XP (any version) does not have any Image Backup utilities built-in.
You can use NTBackup but that is not an image backup.

You need to purchase a third-party application that permits that. There a
many out there.

One that many use is www.acronis.com TrueImage.
You can also create a hidden partition and use any Partition Managers and
clone the partition you wish to save.

"E-Double" <EDouble@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Will WinXP Pro allow one to do an image backup of a hard drive (scsi) and
> then replace the hard drive and restore the image onto the replacement
> hard
> drive (same computer, just different HD) ? Or will the built-in WinXP
> licensing features not allow this ? A scsi drive is going bad on one
> workstation and it would be nice if we could avoid installing the OS from
> scratch and having to resinstall all of the apps. TIA ...

Windows XP (any version) does not have any Image Backup utilities built-in.
You can use NTBackup but that is not an image backup.

You need to purchase a third-party application that permits that. There a
many out there.

One that many use is www.acronis.com TrueImage.
You can also create a hidden partition and use any Partition Managers and
clone the partition you wish to save.

"E-Double" <EDouble@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:83ADF669-5D3A-44D4-A566-FE207D666D7E@microsoft.com...
> Will WinXP Pro allow one to do an image backup of a hard drive (scsi) and
> then replace the hard drive and restore the image onto the replacement
> hard
> drive (same computer, just different HD) ? Or will the built-in WinXP
> licensing features not allow this ? A scsi drive is going bad on one
> workstation and it would be nice if we could avoid installing the OS from
> scratch and having to resinstall all of the apps. TIA ...

Using 3rd party imaging tools (such as Acronis) this is entirely possible,
XP has no imaging software built in.

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"E-Double" <EDouble@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Will WinXP Pro allow one to do an image backup of a hard drive (scsi) and
> then replace the hard drive and restore the image onto the replacement
> hard
> drive (same computer, just different HD) ? Or will the built-in WinXP
> licensing features not allow this ? A scsi drive is going bad on one
> workstation and it would be nice if we could avoid installing the OS from
> scratch and having to resinstall all of the apps. TIA ...

Using 3rd party imaging tools (such as Acronis) this is entirely possible,
XP has no imaging software built in.

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"E-Double" <EDouble@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Will WinXP Pro allow one to do an image backup of a hard drive (scsi) and
> then replace the hard drive and restore the image onto the replacement
> hard
> drive (same computer, just different HD) ? Or will the built-in WinXP
> licensing features not allow this ? A scsi drive is going bad on one
> workstation and it would be nice if we could avoid installing the OS from
> scratch and having to resinstall all of the apps. TIA ...

Perfect, thanks guys !



"Dave B." wrote:

> Using 3rd party imaging tools (such as Acronis) this is entirely possible,
> XP has no imaging software built in.
>
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> "E-Double" <EDouble@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> > Will WinXP Pro allow one to do an image backup of a hard drive (scsi) and
> > then replace the hard drive and restore the image onto the replacement
> > hard
> > drive (same computer, just different HD) ? Or will the built-in WinXP
> > licensing features not allow this ? A scsi drive is going bad on one
> > workstation and it would be nice if we could avoid installing the OS from
> > scratch and having to resinstall all of the apps. TIA ...
>
>
>

Perfect, thanks guys !



"Dave B." wrote:

> Using 3rd party imaging tools (such as Acronis) this is entirely possible,
> XP has no imaging software built in.
>
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> "E-Double" <EDouble@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:83ADF669-5D3A-44D4-A566-FE207D666D7E@microsoft.com...
> > Will WinXP Pro allow one to do an image backup of a hard drive (scsi) and
> > then replace the hard drive and restore the image onto the replacement
> > hard
> > drive (same computer, just different HD) ? Or will the built-in WinXP
> > licensing features not allow this ? A scsi drive is going bad on one
> > workstation and it would be nice if we could avoid installing the OS from
> > scratch and having to resinstall all of the apps. TIA ...
>
>
>

"E-Double" wrote

> Will WinXP Pro allow one to do an image backup of a hard drive (scsi) and
> then replace the hard drive and restore the image onto the replacement
> hard
> drive (same computer, just different HD) ? Or will the built-in WinXP
> licensing features not allow this ? A scsi drive is going bad on one
> workstation and it would be nice if we could avoid installing the OS from
> scratch and having to resinstall all of the apps. TIA ...

Yes, drive imaging to a new HD is fine. It might invoke activation,
however, depending on what other changes were made after the last time it
was activated. There is a way around that by keeping the same volume serial
number. I don't know if that happens just by virtue of the new drive being
restored from an image. See this article by the late Alex Nichol on
activation. Scroll to the section on formatting a drive.

http://aumha.org/win5/a/wpa.htm

"E-Double" wrote

> Will WinXP Pro allow one to do an image backup of a hard drive (scsi) and
> then replace the hard drive and restore the image onto the replacement
> hard
> drive (same computer, just different HD) ? Or will the built-in WinXP
> licensing features not allow this ? A scsi drive is going bad on one
> workstation and it would be nice if we could avoid installing the OS from
> scratch and having to resinstall all of the apps. TIA ...

Yes, drive imaging to a new HD is fine. It might invoke activation,
however, depending on what other changes were made after the last time it
was activated. There is a way around that by keeping the same volume serial
number. I don't know if that happens just by virtue of the new drive being
restored from an image. See this article by the late Alex Nichol on
activation. Scroll to the section on formatting a drive.

http://aumha.org/win5/a/wpa.htm