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Windows XP - windows xp zip and backup facilities
Expert: Saad Shawwa - 10/24/2009
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Hi Saad,
I hope you have enjoyed your vacation.
You told me some time ago, that a free alternative for Ghost program is available. It is called clonezilla and you can find it at www.clonezilla.org
Well, I have downloaded the clonezilla-live-1.2.2-26.iso file in September and burnt it to a CD-RW compact disk. Windows folder information says that it is a Winzip file. In a Windows xp manual that I have obtained, it says that windows xp can zip files without the winzip program it seems. To do this, it says to click Start, My Computer and then click FOLDERS. But I cannot find FOLDERS here. Winzip program is not free any more so I am very keen to find out how to zip and unzip files using windows xp. Can you show me how to use the zip facility on my Windows xp please ? I have windows xp professional sp3.
Before I take the big step and try using clonezilla on my computer, I was wary and wanted to use the Backup facility of Windows xp. I used the Backup facility in Windows xp to back up all the information on my computer and saved the backup file onto my slave drive and made a 3.5 inch recovery floppy disk. But if my master drive gets bust, will the backup file on my slave drive be able to restore my computer back to its working state as the Norton Ghost program used to do for me with Windows 98 ? Will I need to throw away the busted drive or will formatting it enable me to use it again ?
Thank you Saad.
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Hello Trigan how are you doing
i think you didnt burn the iso file correctly , iso file is an image of a cd/dvd contains all the files and boot informations that was on a cd and compressed into one file for later burning
you need a program to burn this iso file into the cd ,it shouldnt be the iso file on the cd when you burn it.
so here is tool that can burn iso file directory into cds/dvd
http://www.freeisoburner.com/
download it and use it to burn the clonezilla iso file that you downloaded it.
about the intergrated compressed file handling in windows xp , it only supports ZIP files not ISO or any other compression extentions such as rar or 7zip etc..
usually if the file is a zip file all what you have to do is right click on that file and choose extract all
and check this website it will give you more informations about zipping/unzipping zip files using microsoft windows built zip tool
http://it.cas.psu.edu/training/howto/encomputers/zip.html
the windows xp backup utility will not backup or create a compelete image of your hard drive , that options was added in microsoft windows vista and microsoft windows 7 lately
it will only create backups of files and registry settings , but not the boot sectors , so if you hard drive got corrupted , you will have to install windows first then use the backup file to restore it
nortron ghost clonezilla and other free and non free tools create a full image of your hard drive as it is , if anything wrong happens to your system or the hard drive you can use the image to restore your system to what it was on the date that you created the image at. you dont have to install windows then restore your settings with imaging you just plug in the cd/dvd and then reimage your hard driver and after its done you are ready to go and use the system
but just make sure to read the clonezilla manual really good before you try it out.
let me know if you need anything else
take care and have a nice day
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