Backup help

[Gamefreak501]

Hi everyone,

A while ago I mentioned about wanting to create an external backup solution for my Photos.

At the moment, I have a 250gb SATA II HDD (well, 232GB) and an 80GB IDE HDD.

I have my windows installation on the 80GB HDD and my 250GB HDD is empty, but will soon have my games and photos put back on it.

What I would like to do is create an automated backup system that will take a copy from my SATA II HDD, put it on my IDE Hard Drive, and then on an external hard drive, on a daily or weekly basis.

However, I have the following qualms:

1) Will I be able to boot off, and install Windows XP SP2 on an SATA II Hard Drive without problems, perhaps using my 80gb HDD as my backup drive? I tried booting off an SATA drive a while back and it didn't work too well.

2) Is it possible to create such an automated system, mentioned above, by using the Backup utility Windows XP comes with?

3). What kind of hard drive should I be looking at for my Windows installation - the same as my 250gb SATA II one? Bearing in mind I have £95 to spare, perhaps a little more, to spend on an external enclosure and another Hard Drive.

I think that's all, cheers!

 

[Gamefreak501]

Cheers for the help everyone,

I thought this thread died a grim death!

I'll be picking up the external hard drive fairly shortly, keeping my 80gb hard drive as the windows hard drive and getting something like that USB hard drive you mentioned Beserker.

Thanks Messiah Kahn for the batch file too, I'll be using that I reckon to get my photos sent from my 250gb SATA to a 250gb USB external drive.

Thanks again Beserker and Messiah Kahn