Some suggestions for backing up Windows XP system with Ghost

Microsoft's Windows XP built in a very powerful multimedia and peripherals support functions, the interface is extremely beautiful, but at the same time bulky, long installation time, if the use of improper and crash, again to restore or install time will be very long. So to do a backup of XP, although Microsoft has provided the restore function in XP, but this restore requires an XP graphical interface, while taking up a lot of space, frequent disk read and write impact system speed.

In addition, even if the security mode, also belongs to a graphical interface, if XP is damaged too much to enter the GUI, restore function is useless. Therefore, it is recommended that you keep a compatible MS-DOS-compliant Windows 9X, Backup XP in a ghost way, which constitutes a multiple operating system to use this ghost backup for emergency remediation in the case of a serious Windows XP failure. Ghost Usage I don't say much, but early preparation is fastidious, if do not good, one is backup time may be very long, second is the effect is not good. Here's what to say about your backup notes.

A. Transfer or delete a paging file

First, you should transfer the paging file to a partition other than installation XP. Or in DOS to delete the paging file Pagefile.sys, because this file default setting is your physical memory 1.5 times times, take up a lot of disk space, if not deleted will affect the following preparation, will also cause backup compression time increase nearly one times.

Second, turn off hibernation and System Restore

XP's hibernate feature and System Restore also take up a lot of space like paging files. The hibernate feature requires that your partitions have a space equivalent to the physical memory, and you cannot specify a partition, so it is not closed. You can turn on these features again after the backup is complete.

Third, the deletion of the temporary need for the font, temporary documents, etc.

If you are a user who often calls the Turetype font to do WordArt, may be installed in the XP directory of a large number of font files, these fonts may be more than hundreds of trillion, but is not necessary to run XP, it is recommended to delete them, and so on after the backup to reload, anyway is a copy of it. Otherwise, the ghost time will be very long, especially after the ghost compression method, because the font itself is very large, the scope of compression is very small, time-consuming is too long. In addition to delete ie temporary files, to empty the Recycle Bin file, otherwise it is wasted storage space and time.

Iv. scanning disks and defragmenting disk fragments

XP must scan the disk before using the ghost Backup to ensure there are no cross links and file fragments on the partition. Even if you are using multiple operating systems, and the last time the crash caused by fragmentation or other disk errors are not in XP, such as the Windows 98 soft shutdown after the crash, you forced reboot caused by the disk error, can be detected at boot. XP then asks you if you want to do a disk scan, not just scan the partition where Windows 98 is located, and wait more than 10 seconds for each partition scan before the user chooses whether to cancel, which seriously affects the speed at which XP starts. Therefore, the use of ghost backup must first scan to remove errors on the partition, so as not to back up a bad state of XP.

The benefits of disk defragmentation and backup I don't need to say more, here is a wake-up call.

Five, registered good MSN, anti-virus software, etc.

Because XP has its own MSN browser and win Messenger, the two software are placed in the same partition installed, and its path in the general user of XP more difficult to find another transfer, you reinstall each time you need to reconnect to enter the user name, email address and password re-register; In addition, such as Jinshan poison PA 2001 software, If the reload also wants to re-register or enter the serial number, therefore recommends that you register well first, then uses the ghost to back up, restores after is relieved many operational trouble. In addition, there are mail rules, desktop settings, and so on, set up a backup on once and for all, and the rest of what tool software to register and then ghost, you think about it yourself oh.

By the way, the last thing to remind you is that using a ghost backup requires you to use the FAT32 disk format, and NTFS has to find another way.