Best way to back up my data

[jaida]

I'm gonna do a repartition and format and I was debating on the best way to back up my data.

Here it goes I was planning to just burn all my files onto cds along with my registry files. Then after i repartition,format and install the os copy those files back to the drive and rewrite over the registry files that were installed with the os. oh yeah its win 98.

all help is greatly appreciated http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/smile.gif

[This message has been edited by jaida (edited 02-24-2001).]

[scotter]

that works just remember that any files your copy to a cd then copy back to your hard drive will be set as reaad only
one way to get around this is to copy all your back ups to a folder then zip or rar the folder before burning it to a cd

[jaida]

so if I just took them all and made them into rars after extracting them out again they will appear as they did before but not be read only huh thats interesting

i could just go into dos and change their attributes but that would take alot of time

thanx scotter

[Comtech]

From a DOS prompt, you can mass change the attributes of the whole computer.
Just type attrib -h -r -s -a c:\*.* /s
That will un-hide EVERYTHING, and windows will set the +r and +h on the necessary files, the next time it boots, no need to do it manually.

[jaida]

thanx comtech http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/smile.gif

I didn't know you could mass change the attributes and then windows would set the read only and hidden on necessary files.