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Suggestions for backing up WinXP with GHOST

Microsoft Windows XP has built-in very powerful multimedia and peripheral support functions. The interface is extremely beautiful, but at the same time it is bulky and has a long installation time. If it crashes due to improper use, restore or install again. The time will be long. So to do a backup of XP, although Microsoft has provided a restore function in XP, but this restore requires XP's graphical interface, while taking up a lot of space, frequent disk read and write affect system speed. In addition

even safe mode, also belong to a graphical interface, if XP is so intense damage caused by inaccessible GUI, the restore function to no avail. Therefore, it is recommended that you keep a Windows 9X compatible with MS-DOS
, and back up XP with GHOST, which constitutes multiple operating systems, so that when a serious failure occurs in Windows XP, use this GHOST backup for emergency recovery. . I don't have much to say about the usage of Ghost, but the preparation in the early stage is more stressful. If it is not done well, the backup time may be very long, and the second is that the effect is not good. Let's talk about the precautions when backing up.

First, transfer or delete files

first page, the page file should be transferred to another partition other than the installation of XP, the page file or delete Pagefile at DOS
state .sys, because this file defaults to 1.5 times your physical memory, taking up a lot of disk space, if you do not delete will affect the following preparations, it will also cause the backup compression time to nearly double.

Second, turn off hibernation and System Restore

XP's System Restore function and hibernation and page files are also the same, take up a lot of space. The hibernation function requires that your partition has the same space as the physical memory, and you cannot specify the storage partition, so it is not closed. You can turn these features back on after the backup is over.

Third, no need to delete the font, temporary files, etc.

If you are a regular user calls TureType do WordArt font, possibly installed in XP a lot of font files in a directory These fonts may reach hundreds of megabytes, but they are not necessary to run XP. It is recommended to delete them, and then reload them after the backup is finished. Anyway, it is just a copy. Otherwise, the GHOST time will be very long, especially after choosing the compression mode of Ghost, because the font itself is very large, the room for compression is very small, and it takes too long. In addition, you should delete the temporary files of IE, empty the recycle bin files, etc., otherwise it will waste storage space and time.

Four, scan disk and defragging

XP before using GHOST backup disk must be scanned to ensure that no cross-links and file fragmentation on the partition. Even if you are using multiple operating systems, and the last fragmentation or other disk errors caused by the crash does not occur in XP, such as Windows 98 soft shutdown after the crash, you force a reboot caused disk errors, XP is starting It can also be detected. Then XP will ask if you want to scan the disk, not only scan the partition where Windows 98 is located, and each partition waits for more than ten seconds before scanning to let the user choose whether to cancel, which seriously affects the startup speed of XP. Therefore, before using Ghost backup, you must first scan the error on the partition to avoid backing up a bad XP.

do the benefits of disk defragmentation before backing up Needless to say, here mind you can.

five registered good MSN, antivirus
due XP comes with a browser and MSN Win Messenger, these two software are installed on the same partition XP, and in its path It is hard for ordinary users in XP to find another transfer. After reinstalling, you need to re-register the user name, email address and password every time. In addition, software such as Kingsoft Internet Security 2001, if you reinstall XP, you must re-register or input the sequence. No., so it is recommended that you register first, then use GHOST backup, after recovery, you will avoid a lot of troubles. In addition, there are mail rules, desktop settings, etc., set up and then back up once and for all, and what other tools are required to register and then Ghost, you should think about it yourself.

By the way, the last to remind you, with Ghost backup requires that you use the FAT32 disk format, NTFS have to think another way.