NTFS Backups to External Hard Drive

I am running Windows XP Professional SP1. I recently
purchased a 120G external hard drive and formatted it as
an NTFS partition. I am using the external hard drive to
backup files from my computer (My Documents, some software
installation files, and a few other directories), and then
I am planning to reformat my PC and restore the files from
the external hard drive.

I was wanting to know, is anything I will need to do as
far as NTFS security permissions on the external hard
drive folders to ensure that I will have access the files
after I reformat my computer and reinstall Windows XP
Professional?

Thank you for your time.

Steven
Wed Aug 25 14:30:51 CDT 2004

If those files are encrypted by EFS make sure that you backup your EFS certificate
AND private key or you will lose access to those files or better yet unencrypted them
until they are restored to the new install. If none of the files are encrypted just
make sure that administrators have full control ntfs permissions to the drive folder
and subfolders which they would have by default. Even is there is a ntfs permissions
problem after the install, an administrator can take ownership of the folders and
then grant himself full control to gain access. --- Steve


"Brad" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:013a01c48ad6$0334e890$a401280a@phx.gbl...
>I am running Windows XP Professional SP1. I recently
> purchased a 120G external hard drive and formatted it as
> an NTFS partition. I am using the external hard drive to
> backup files from my computer (My Documents, some software
> installation files, and a few other directories), and then
> I am planning to reformat my PC and restore the files from
> the external hard drive.
>
> I was wanting to know, is anything I will need to do as
> far as NTFS security permissions on the external hard
> drive folders to ensure that I will have access the files
> after I reformat my computer and reinstall Windows XP
> Professional?
>
> Thank you for your time.

BAR
Wed Aug 25 17:51:02 CDT 2004

You use the word 'backup' which implies perhaps the use of an application to
selectively locate, compress and write the files.

Don't. Just copy 'drag and drop'.

Another method is to use FAST [files and settings transfer wizard] to copy
all your DATA, Passwords, Security Information and Email to a FILE on the
large drive. This can be 'imported' using FAST after you rebuild the PC.

"Brad" wrote:

> I am running Windows XP Professional SP1. I recently
> purchased a 120G external hard drive and formatted it as
> an NTFS partition. I am using the external hard drive to
> backup files from my computer (My Documents, some software
> installation files, and a few other directories), and then
> I am planning to reformat my PC and restore the files from
> the external hard drive.
>
> I was wanting to know, is anything I will need to do as
> far as NTFS security permissions on the external hard
> drive folders to ensure that I will have access the files
> after I reformat my computer and reinstall Windows XP
> Professional?
>
> Thank you for your time.
>