I have a Sony Vaio notebook without a battery that I use by plugging it into a 110v AC wall plug.
The last time that I turned it on, I failed to notice that it was not plugged in, and it died before it was fully booted up.
TJ's old post below says that Acronis True Image can be used to restore when you can not boot.
I am going to purchase a copy of Acronis anyway, but I am guessing that my Sony it will not boot from a brand new copy of Acronis that I has never been in the Sony before. If this is the case, then should I purchase a copy
of Spotmau as well so that I can boot up the Sony?
Is this Spotmau link above a good product? When I searched Spotmau, I saw several comments which led me to think that Spotmau can be used by lowtech types.
Ron D
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Sent: Thursday, October 26, 2006 5:27 AM
Subject: Re: [amibroker] System Backup utility
Ara,
The key feature is ability to restore backup even if you CAN NOT BOOT to Windows.
I am afraid that with MS products you need to boot to windows to run them :-( And this is show stopper.
Acronis True Image, allows to restore when you can not boot, because it
creates self-bootable CD-ROM that runs even if master boot record on your hard disk is destroyed.
Best regards,
Tomasz Janeczko
amibroker.com