Hi John:

I'm not sure if it's related to WIN XP no change, SP1 or SP2, but if WIN 
XP "sees" more than one copy of itself it does bad things to your hard 
drives.  There's a Symantec web page describing how to use Ghost 2003 
(running under DOS, not windows) so that you do NOT have both drives 
connected to the computer and allow WIN XP to boot.  Note that "Ghost" 
has two modes.  In one you make an "Image" of your drive that is not 
bootable and in the other you "Clone" or disk-to-disk copy the drive.

I believe that the only trustworthy backup is to clone the drive and 
then use the clone as your main drive.  But it's a hassle to swap hard 
drives since WIN XP sees the drive serial numbers and does not like the 
new drive.

A close friend was using RAID just for backup and a few months ago had a 
hard drive failure.  Since he makes heavy use of his computer for his 
business this was not a good thing.  He had tried a data recovery 
service with no luck.  I told him about http://www.drivesavers.com/ and 
they recovered his drive for $ 4,500.  He is now using an on line backup 
service since he is lucky enough to have a high speed internet connection.

Have Fun,

Brooke Clarke

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