Repeat after me: “Ghost is my friend.”
My home box (XP PRO) has a drive bay with a pull-out carrier that I NEVER populate unless I’m booting to my WIN XPE DVD.
About every month, I power down and put the pull out drive into that bay. Then I boot the system to my WIN XPE disk, and use Symantec’s “GHOST” software to mirror my entire primary HD image onto the HD in the pull-out carrier.
You culd accomplish the same thing with a bootable CD that had Ghost on it.
Oi.
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