cheeko

Hi,

I'm hoping someone can help me. I purchased an external hard drive so I can have a backup copy of my C drive. When I copy/paste the C drive it starts coping, but then and error message comes up telling me that the pagefile.sys is being used and it cannot continue. When I found where the pagefile.sys was, I went to turn it off and it said that I shouldn't because if the pagefile is less than 510 megabytes, then the system may not be able to create a debugging information file if a STOP error occurs.

Could someone please advise me on what I should do. I have Windows XP.

Thanks,

Cheeko

tosh9i

For starters, don't waste your time copying the Page File. It's just a swap file (virtual ram), backing it up is entirely worthless, actually it might even cause problems if you try to restore it.

When you backup your C: Drive, are you able to select/deselect which files you want and don't want, if so, then unselect pagefile.sys.

linderman

I think you will find using an image program such as Drive Image XML (free) will be much easier for your

http://www.runtime.org/dixml.htm

linderman

I think you will find using an image program such as Drive Image XML (free) will be much easier for you

http://www.runtime.org/dixml.htm

cheeko

Thank you very much. I downloaded the drive image xml and have made a copy of my C drive.

Thanks again,

Cheeko

linderman

now


check out this web page

http://www.runtime.org/peb.htm



you will want to make one of these bootable disks / so when the day comes that windows wont boot

you can boot from the cd-rom (barts PE disk) and then enter the drive image program, from there you simply restore from your saved image file to your "C" drive and you will be back up and running in minutes


dont hesitate to ask more questions