Currently I backup by copying my most useful data to DVDs (mydocs/desktop etc) but it occured to me that if my HDD does fail I will still have to go through the work of installing Windows, all other programs, customising them, setting email client etc so I thought it would be worth investing in another HDD and mirroring my current one to that so I could just swap them over in the event of HDD failure.
Which is the best way to do this? Buy another oem drive (320gb 7200.10) and use something like True Image? Does WinXP Pro have HDD cloning software? Could I use Linux (dd?)?
Thanks