Backing up the hard drive

[samijubal]

How do I back up the hard drive to DVD-R? I thought I saw someplace in Nero to do it, but I can't find it now.

[jimmalenko]

Nero has it's own software called BackItUp, which can do this for you.

[samijubal]

I only had that in a 30 day trial, it's gone now. Is there some other way?

[Bodyslide]

I use Norton Ghost. Anyway you go your going to need to purchase some kind of software for Backup purposes.

[snafu099]

use Barts Pebuilder to create a bootable xp enviroment cd and add the nero plug-in.
Other plug-ins can provide access to adaware and anti-virus free software

When booted with this cd you can then burn any or all of the hdd to cd or dvd.

assuming you have a free copy of nero from a purchased burner then it is all free.

three folders to copy to restore system:
1. Documents and Settings
2. Program files
3. Windows

This is not the same as writing an image file or compressed backup type file. Just a uncompressed data copy.

There was a post some time back giving step by step method of backup via a dual boot xp system, this is basically the same without the need to have a dual boot system.

[sacajaweeda]

I only had that in a 30 day trial, it's gone now. Is there some other way?

Pay for it?

(Is this a trick question?)