On Sat, 29 Oct 2005 16:17:16 GMT, mike@nospam.com (Mike) wrote:


I forgot to add that the purpose for this is to be able to be able to
replace the HD should it go bad suddenly. I have Windows XP.

Thanks

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>I would like to make a mirror image of a 30 gig hard drive on a weekly
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Why not mirror it once and then backup your data and system state
semi-weekly? You'd save a *lot* of space for it!

Justin

Actually, what you might want to do is to buy a RAID controller, add a
second hard drive that meets or exceeds the capacity on the first one,
and create a RAID 1 (mirror) array which works wonders in this
particular application. Send me an e-mail if you need help:
jcbrown@gmail.com