Full system + data backup from C: to E:

I have a Win2000 T21 IBM laptop. Just got an external SCSI Seagate HD for backup purposes.
The question is: What is the most efficient (and easiest) way to backup my entire system and data on the SCSI drive so that I could even boot from the SCSI if the C: drive were to crash? Are there any utilities or third party applications to do that? Or are there any Win2000 tools to do that?
Help appreciated.

 

The different disk GUID and the changed drive letter would keep the SCSI copy from starting w2k. Those issues can be overcome by following the instructions in the MS Knowledge Base article on migrating a w2k installation to a new drive, but it's a hassle and hardly worth it. What you could do, more easily, is install w2k on the SCSI drive and use it to copy the w2k system files, Program Files folder, and anything else you want from C: into a backup directory, and copy it back to C: the same way if ever you have to. By the way, if you do install w2k onto the SCSI drive, it will use the w2k boot files on C:, adding itself to the boot.ini boot menu. To get the SCSI drive to boot when it is selected as the boot drive in motherboard BIOS, you will have to have copied the w2k boot files from C: to your SCSI drive - and have done this before you install w2k onto the SCSI drive, to make sure the boot files are located on the beginning of the drive and are therefore accessible. Or, if your laptop has a floppy drive, you could simply copy the boot files to a floppy disk (after formatting it with w2k, so at boot it looks for ntldr), and the floppy would then boot into either of the two w2k installations.