Question:
How do I back up my entire hard drive with Windows XP home?
hoodwink
2007-04-25 02:26:52 UTC
How do I back up my entire hard drive with Windows XP home?
Five answers:
_Chetu_
2007-04-25 02:52:07 UTC
thr is too many image/clone creating programs....



here is all in one wot u want........ the best bootable cd in dis world :P



Hiren's BootCD 8.9

All in one Dos Bootable CD which has all these utilities



Partition Tools

Partition Magic Pro 8.05

Best software to partition hard drive



Acronis Disk Director Suite 9.0.554

Popular disk management functions in a single suite



Paragon Partition Manager 7.0.1274

Universal tool for partitions



Partition Commander 9.01

The safe way to partition your hard drive,with undo feature



Ranish Partition Manager 2.44

a boot manager and hard disk partitioner.



The Partition Resizer 1.3.4

move and resize your partitions in one step and more.



Smart Fdisk 2.05

a simple harddisk partition manager



SPecial Fdisk 2000

SPFDISK a partition tool.



eXtended Fdisk 0.9.3

XFDISK allows easy partition creation and edition



GDisk 1.1.1

Complete replacement for the DOS FDISK utility and more.



Super Fdisk 1.0

Create, delete, format partitions drives without destroying data.



Disk Clone Tools

ImageCenter 5.6 (Drive Image 2002)

Best software to clone hard drive



Norton Ghost 11.0

Similar to Drive Image (with usb/scsi support)



Acronis True Image 8.1.945

Create an exact disk image for complete system backup and disk cloning.



Partition Saving 3.30

A tool to backup/restore partitions. (SavePart.exe)



COPYR.DMA Build013

A Tool for making copies of hard disks with bad sectors



Antivirus Tools

F-Prot Antivirus 3.16f (1003)

Very good virus scanner (with ntfs support and easy to use menu)



McAfee Antivirus 4.40 (1003)

a virus scanner (with ntfs support and easy to use menu)



Recovery Tools

Active Partition Recovery 3.0

To Recover a Deleted partition.



Active Uneraser 3.0

To recover deleted files and folders on FAT and NTFS systems.



Ontrack Easy Recovery Pro 6.10

To Recover data that has been deleted/virus attack



Winternals Disk Commander 1.1

more than just a standard deleted-file recovery utility



TestDisk 6.6b

Tool to check and undelete partition.



Lost & Found 1.06

a good old data recovery software.



DiyDataRecovery Diskpatch 2.1.100

An excellent data recovery software.



Prosoft Media Tools 5.0 v1.1.2.64

Another excellent data recovery software with many other options.



PhotoRec 6.6b

File and pictures recovery Tool.



Testing Tools

System Speed Test 4.78

it tests CPU, harddrive, ect.



PC-Check 6.0

Easy to use hardware tests



Ontrack Data Advisor 5.0

Powerful diagnostic tool for assessing the condition of your computer



The Troubleshooter 7.02

all kind of hardware testing tool



PC Doctor 3.0

a benchmarking and information tool



Test Cpu/Video/Disk 5.6

a tool to test cpu, video, and disk



Test Hard Disk Drive 1.0

a tool to test Hard Disk Drive



RAM (Memory) Testing Tools

DocMemory 3.1b

RAM Test utility



GoldMemory 5.07

RAM Test utility



Memtest86+ 1.70

PC Memory Test



Hard Disk Tools

Hard Disk Diagnostic Utilities

Seagate Seatools Desktop Edition 3.02

Western Digital Data Lifeguard Tools

Western Digital Diagnostics (DLGDIAG) 5.04f

Maxtor PowerMax 4.23

Maxtor amset utility 4.0

Maxtor(or any Hdd) Low Level Formatter 1.1

Fujitsu HDD Diagnostic Tool 6.61

Fujitsu IDE Low Level Format 1.0

Samsung HDD Utility(HUTIL) 2.02

Samsung Disk Diagnose (SHDIAG) 1.28

IBM/Hitachi Drive Fitness Test 4.08

IBM/Hitachi Feature Tool 2.03

Gateway GwScan 3.15

ExcelStor's ESTest 3.80

MHDD 4.6

WDClear 1.30

Toshiba Hard Disk Diagnostic 2.00b

SeaTools for Dos 1.08



HDD Regenerator 1.51

to recover a bad hard drive



Ontrack Disk Manager 9.57

Disk Test/Format/Maintenance tool.



Norton Disk Doctor 2002

a tool to repair a damaged disk, or to diagnose your hard drive.



Norton Disk Editor 2002

a powerful disk editing, manual data recovery tool.



Active Kill Disk 3.1

Securely overwrites and destroys all data on physical drive.



HDAT2 4.5.2

main function is testing and repair (regenerates) bad sectors for detected devices



SmartUDM 2.00

Hard Disk Drive S.M.A.R.T. Viewer.



Victoria 3.33

a freeware program for low-level HDD diagnostics



System Information Tools

Aida16 2.14

a system information tool, extracts details of all components of the PC



PCI and AGP info Tool (1003)

The PCI System information & Exploration tool.



System Analyser version 5.3p

View extensive information about your hardware



Navratil Software System Information 0.59.14

High-end professional system information tool



Astra 5.31

Advanced System info Tool and Reporting Assistant



HwInfo 5.0.5

a powerful system information utility



PC-Config 9.33

Complete hardware detection of your computer



SysChk 2.46

Find out exactly what is under the hood of your PC



CPU Identification utility 1.12

Detailed information on CPU (CHKCPU.EXE)



CTIA CPU Information

another CPU information tool



MBR (Master Boot Record) Tools

MBRWork 1.07b

a utility to perform some common and uncommon MBR functions



MBR Tool 2.2.100

backup, verify, restore, edit, refresh, remove, display, re-write...



DiskMan4

all in one tool for cmos, bios, bootrecord and more



BootFix Utility

Run this utility if you get 'Invalid system disk'



MBR SAVE / RESTORE 2.1

BootSave and BootRest tools to save / restore MBR



Boot Partition 2.60

add Partition in the Windows NT/2000/XP Multi-boot loader



Partition Table Doctor 3.0

a tool to repair/modify mbr, bootsector, partition table



Smart Boot Manager 3.7.1

a multi boot manager



Bootmagic 8.0

This tool is for multi boot operating systems



MBRWizard 2.0b

Directly update and modify the MBR (Master Boot Record)



BIOS / CMOS Tools

CMOS 0.93

CMOS Save / Restore Tool



BIOS Cracker 4.8

BIOS password remover (cmospwd)



BIOS Cracker 1.4

BIOS password remover (cmospwc)



BIOS Utility 1.35.0

BIOS Informations, password, beep codes and more.



!BIOS 3.20

a powerfull utility for bios and cmos



DISKMAN4

a powerful all in one utility



UniFlash 1.40

bios flash utility



Kill CMOS

a tiny utility to wipe cmos



Award DMI Configuration Utility 2.43

DMI Configuration utility for modifying/viewing the MIDF contents.



MultiMedia Tools

Picture Viewer 1.94

Picture viewer for dos, supports more then 40 filetypes.



QuickView Pro 2.57

movie viewer for dos, supports many format including divx.



MpxPlay 1.54 Final

a small Music Player for dos



Password Tools

Active Password Changer 3.0.420

To Reset User Password on windows NT/2000/XP/2003/Vista (FAT/NTFS)



Offline NT/2K/XP Password Changer

utility to reset windows nt/2000/xp administrator/user password.



Registry Reanimator 1.02

Check and Restore structure of the Damaged Registry files of NT/2K/XP



NTPWD

utility to reset windows nt/2000/xp administrator/user password.



Registry Viewer 4.2

Registry Viewer/Editor for Win9x/Me/NT/2K/XP



ATAPWD 1.2

Hard Disk Password Utility



NTFS (FileSystems) Tools

NTFS Dos Pro 5.0

To access ntfs partitions from Dos



NTFS 4 Dos 1.4

To access ntfs partitions from Dos



Paragon Mount Everything 3.0

To access NTFS, Ext2FS, Ext3FS partitions from dos



NTFS Dos 3.02

To access ntfs partitions from Dos



EditBINI 1.01

to Edit boot.ini on NTFS Partition



Dos File Managers

Volkov Commander 4.99

Dos File Manager with LongFileName/ntfs support

(Similar to Norton Commander)



Dos Command Center 5.1

Classic dos-based file manager.



File Wizard 1.35

a file manager - colored files, drag and drop copy, move, delete etc.



File Maven 3.5

an advanced Dos file manager with high speed PC-to-PC file

transfers via serial or parallel cable



FastLynx 2.0

Dos file manager with Pc to Pc file transfer capability



LapLink 5.0

the smart way to transfer files and directories between PCs.



Dos Navigator 6.4.0

Dos File Manager, Norton Commander clone but has much more features.



Mini Windows 98

Can run from Ram Drive, with ntfs support,

Added 7-Zip which supports .7z .zip .cab .rar .arj .gzip,

.bzip2 .z .tar .cpio .rpm and .deb

Disk Defragmenter, Notepad / RichText Editor,

Image Viewer, .avi .mpg .divx .xvid Movie Player, etc...



Other Tools

Ghost Walker 2003.793

utility that changes the security ID (SID) for Windows NT, 2000 and XP



DosCDroast beta 2

Dos CD Burning Tools



Universal TCP/IP Network 5.9.3

MSDOS Network Client to connect via TCP/IP to a Microsoft based

network. The network can either be a peer-to-peer or a server based

network, it contains 91 different network card drivers



Dos Tools

USB CD-Rom Driver 1

Standard usb_cd.sys driver for cd drive



Universal USB Driver 2

Panasonic v2.20 ASPI Manager for USB mass storage



ASUSTeK USB Driver 3

ASUS USB CD-ROM Device Driver Version 1.00



SCSI Support

SCSI Drivers for Dos



SATA Support

SATA Driver (gcdrom.sys) and JMicron JMB361 (xcdrom.sys) for Dos



1394 Firewire Support

1394 Firewire Drivers for Dos



Interlnk support at COM1

To access another computer from COM port



Interlnk support at LPT1

To access another computer from LPT port



and too many great dos tools

very good collection of dos utilities

extract.exe pkzip.exe pkunzip.exe unrar.exe rar.exe

ace.exe lha.exe gzip.exe uharcd.exe mouse.com

attrib.com deltree.exe xcopy.exe diskcopy.com imgExtrc.exe

undelete.com edit.com fdisk.exe fdisk2.exe fdisk3.exe

lf.exe delpart.exe wipe.com zap.com format.com

move.exe more.com find.exe hex.exe debug.exe

split.exe mem.exe mi.com sys.com smartdrv.exe

xmsdsk.exe killer.exe share.exe scandisk.exe scanreg.exe

guest.exe doskey.exe duse.exe biosdtct.exe setver.exe

intersvr.exe interlnk.exe loadlin.exe lfndos.exe doslfn.com



Windows Tools

SpaceMonger 1.4

keeping track of the free space on your computer



Drive Temperature 1.0

Hard Disk Drive temperature meter



Disk Speed1.0

Hard Disk Drive Speed Testing Tool



MemTest 1.0

a Memory Testing Tool



PageDfrg 2.32

System file Defragmenter For NT/2k/XP



WhitSoft File Splitter 4.5a

a Small File Split-Join Tool



Ghost Image Explorer 11.0

to add/remove/extract files from Ghost image file



DriveImage Explorer 5.0

to add/remove/extract files from Drive image file



Drive SnapShot 1.37

creates an exact Disk Image of your system into a file while windows is running.



Active Undelete 5.1.010

a tool to recover deleted files



Restoration 2.5.14

a tool to recover deleted files



GetDataBack for FAT 2.31

Data recovery software for FAT file systems



GetDataBack for NTFS 2.31

Data recovery software for NTFS file systems



Unstoppable Copier 2.28

Allows you to copy files from disks with problems such as bad sectors,

scratches or that just give errors when reading data.



Startup Control Panel 2.8

a tool to edit startup programs



Startup Monitor 1.02

it notifies you when any program registers itself to run at system startup



IB Process Manager 1.04

a little process manager for 9x/2k, shows dll info etc.



Pocket KillBox 2.0

can be used to get rid of files that stubbornly refuse to allow you to delete them



Unlocker 1.8.5

This tool can delete file/folder when you get this message - Cannot delete file:

Access is denied, The file is in use by another program etc.



HijackThis 1.99

a general homepage hijackers detector and remover and more



RootkitRevealer 1.7

Rootkit Revealer is an advanced patent-pending root kit detection utility.



Silent Runners Revision 50

A free script that helps detect spyware, malware and adware in the startup process



Autoruns 8.61

Displays All the entries from startup folder, Run, RunOnce, and other Registry keys,

Explorer shell extensions,toolbars, browser helper objects, Winlogon notifications,

auto-start services, Scheduled Tasks, Winsock, LSA Providers, Remove Drivers

and much more which helps to remove nasty spyware/adware and viruses.



Dial a Fix 0.60.0.24

Fix errors and problems with COM/ActiveX object errors and missing registry entries,

Automatic Updates, SSL, HTTPS, and Cryptography service (signing/verification)

issues, Reinstall internet explorer etc. comes with the policy scanner



CurrPort 1.07

displays the list of all currently opened TCP and UDP ports on your computer



Unknown Devices 1.2 (1003)

helps you find what those unknown devices in Device Manager really are



PCI 32 Sniffer 1.1 (1003)

device information tool (similar to unknown devices)



NewSID 4.10

utility that changes the security ID (SID) for Windows NT, 2000 and XP



Double Driver 1.0

Driver Backup and Restore tool



DriverBackup! 1.0.2

Another handy tool to backup drivers



CPU-Z 1.39

It gathers information on some of the main devices of your system



CWShredder 2.19

Popular CoolWebSearch Trojan Remover tool



Winsock 2 Fix for 9x

to fix corrupted Winsock2 information by poorly written Internet programs



XP TCP/IP Repair 1.0

Repair your Windows XP Winsock and TCP/IP registry errors



CCleaner 1.38.485

Crap Cleaner is a freeware system optimization and privacy tool



EzPcFix 1.0.0.16

Helpful tool when trying to remove viruses, spyware, and malware



Content Advisor Password Remover 1.0

It Removes Content Advisor Password from Internet Explorer



WinKeyFinder 1.0

Allows you to View and Change Xp, Windows 2003 and .NET Product Keys



Spybot - Search & Destroy 1.4 (1003)

Application to scan for spyware, adware, hijackers and other malicious software.



SpywareBlaster 3.5.1 (1003)

Prevent the installation of spyware and other potentially unwanted software.



Ad-Aware SE Personal 1.06 (1003)

find and remove spyware, adware, dialers etc. (a must have tool)

Hiren's Bootcd 8.9 (69.5MB)



Download :

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&rlz=1B3GGGL_enIN215IN215&q=hiren%27s+boot+cd+download&btnG=Search



or



Ultimate Boot CD



http://digg.com/linux_unix/Ultimate_boot_CD_5
S&H
2007-04-28 04:57:12 UTC
I'd recommend you to use True Image by Acronis because it is a very reliable and fast working programs which does its job without any flaws.
2016-05-18 06:10:25 UTC
Right click the folder and choose "sharing and and security" to share the files in the folder. If that still doesnt work, you may have to turn on file sharing for the pc in general. I forget how to do that. google for "file sharing xp home."
ELfaGeek
2007-04-25 03:55:46 UTC
Try Drive Image XML, it's free and easy to use.



And, best of all, it works.
gotuthnkn
2007-04-25 08:27:48 UTC
its simple go to tools and select back up..follow the steps from there, or use nero


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