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How does one "backup" a computer? WIndows 98, CentaurHauls with @550 MGZ IIIMB RAM

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You go and buy a CD Burner and transfer all of the stuff you want to keep onto the CD. An alternate method is to use the Backup program that comes with Windows 98. P.S. I would recommend not to backup your entire computer because it is kind of dangerous to replace your system files when you put the backup files back on your computer. Just backup what you put on the computer, not what Windows put on. If you installed software, you have the discs that the software came off of.. don't back it up, it's pointless..


On Sunday, March 17, 2002 at 5:41 pm, aqua wrote:
>I have a question about How
>do I protect myself against email viruses (such as worms)?:

> How does one "backup" a computer? WIndows 98, CentaurHauls with @550 MGZ IIIMB RAM
>

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There are several ways to backup a computer. The one I like is to add another hard drive and basically copy/paste from the first drive to the second. Hard drives are cheaper than CD burners, and to restore from a CD may require special additional software as well.

Contrary to what the other poster said you should definitely backup the operating system (Windows folder, etc.). Otherwise, when things go wrong and you want to restore, you'll have to reinstall not just Windows, but everything else as well.

Bob Sturtevant  http://home.adelphia.net/~bobstur/
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