The best way to do this would be to use DriveImage or Norton Ghost. These tools make a complete blind copy of the entire hard disk. if you have problems at a later date you can restore the whole hard disk to the state it was when you made your copy.
This is quite a good way to protect your PC because you don't have to spend ages working out what the fault was.
Both of these will split up the large backup file they make into CD size chunks. You can then burn some CDs. This means you can always restore your system if you need to by using the CDs.
Keith
February 2004
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