Protecting Your Computer Data with XXClone

Everyone will suggest doing a backup (or several backups) to avoid a computer disaster. If the backups are done on a partition of the same hard drive, the backup protection is limited severely. If there is a major diaster with that main hard drive, it could impact every partition. All the backups done on separate partitions, in effect, become part of the catastrophe and become essentially useless.

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Backing Up With Just Windows

One of the consistent questions, as a result of an article on doing computer backups, is one that asks which third party software program I would recommend. The answer is that I can’t recommend any because what Microsoft supplies with Windows is fine for me. I don’t see the need to spend money on additional software when the backup function that Microsoft supplies is perfectly adequate.

For example, in Windows XP, the backup function can be found at:

Start - All Programs - Accessories - System Tools and then Backup

Ed Bott has an excellent presentation in a 2003 article:

link: Windows XP Backup Made Easy

Third party software may have added features - perhaps users of those programs can add some comments. However, Microsoft has made it easy to do backups and that is all that I have had to use. It just works well for me.

Catherine Forsythe