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Copying internal harddrive to external harddrive(except for windows folder then formating internal hard drive

Asked by annas in Windows XP Operating System, Removable Backup Media, Hard Drives & Storage

Copying internal harddrive to external harddrive(except for windows folder) then formatting internal hard drive then reinstalling windows xppro. finally copying files back to harddrive, thereby preserving all applications., but now with a new copy of Windows XP. Can this be done?
I have a 1 TB external drive. I have Acuris 2009, but even having read the instructions on site, I'm not sure they apply to what I want to do.

I hope I have been clear and exact in describing what I want to do. I don't want to have to go to all the trouble of reinstalling my all my software.

All the methods I have see so far seem to copy an image of the disk to the external drive then copying it back, but this simply puts the OS back on without reinstalling it. Thnks to any and all who can help me!
Annas

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Copying internal harddrive to external harddrive(except for windows folder then formating internal hard drive

Asked by annas in Windows XP Operating System, Removable Backup Media, Hard Drives & Storage

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