My friend has backed up his C drive to a usb travel drive. He is afraid that Windows XP is not backed up on it

If the C drive fails can the computer be booted from the travel drive?

My friend has backed up his C drive to a usb travel drive. He is afraid that Windows XP is not backed up on it
Unfortunately, no. The C drive failing is like your hard drive failing. In order to re-boot your computer after a hard drive (or C drive failure) you would need to get a new hard drive. Also, I don't believe it's possible to back up the operating system itself, but you could surely backup everything else.
Reply:No, you cannot install XP on a thumb drive without a lot of configuration and setup work. If his hard drive crashes, he will still have to reload the entire system, but at least you'll have copies of any documents, favorites and such backed up.
Reply:he can't back up windows xp on a flash drive or a travle drive. there is too little space and it just dosen't work~!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Reply:There is no way you can make a copy of windows XP.
Reply:The only way to also back up XP is to 'clone' the C: drive onto another HDD using True Image 8 or higher. ~


This will also backup all your programs (on C:) in a useable fashion
Reply:If you backed up all the files which I doubt you did, b/c windows is such a big file. A usb flash drive MOST likely wouldnt be able to hold that. I would suggest an external hard drive. You prolly backed up your files.....not XP
Reply:No, windows is not backed up.





Although its possible to make an .iso of your current windows installation, it is too big to fit on a flash drive, and you have to know what you are doing and use special software to do so.





Also, you have to use bootable media for windows to work. Flash drives are not bootable media.