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This is what I'd do.
To create an image of the laptop drive...
Remove the drive from laptop, un-jump it to slave status--probably no
jumpers. It should be written on the label on the drive. Connect it to the
IDE cable in another PC on which Partition Commander is installed or run PM
from a CD if you know how to create an ISO and burn a CD. When PM is
running, you should be able to see both drives. Change the partition size on
the PC drive so that you have room to create another partition to which
you'd copy the laptop drive.
To backup the laptop drive...
Get a USB driver that's supported under Windows for the storage device that
you want to connect to the laptop. Install a backup program. I'd use Backup
for Workgroups. Now you can backup as often as you wish.
Colin West
-----Original Message-----
From: c [mailto:camacazi@xxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Thursday, October 21, 2004 3:09 PM
To: Ivo Karindi; omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx; Michael Guess
Subject: RE: Casper catastrophe
Id prefer a bootable floppy/cd but does anyone know how to backup a laptop
with only one harddrive slot to a another harddrive? problem is the bootable
stuff i have doesnt recognise the usb port ,so the software doesnt see my
USB harddrive. Looks like my only option is a windows based backup [unless
someone knows a workaround?]
All help appreciated
Cheers
Cameron
-----Original Message-----
From: Ivo Karindi [mailto:ivo@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Thursday, 21 October 2004 10:46 PM
To: omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx; Michael Guess
Subject: Re: Casper catastrophe
I guess the moral of the story is the fact that although several of
those disk image creating programs allow you to do it straight from
Windows, it may not be a good idea because there are many processes
running and who knows what may happen. Doing the image from DOS,
bootable CD or even a bootable floppy would be probably the best,
whatever promises the software vendors give about the ability to run
this stuff straight in Windows.
Ivo Karindi
MG> As you may recall, several weeks ago I had a disaster during a backup
that
MG> wiped out my backup and caused a registry problem that could only be
MG> resolved by reinstalling my Win2k OS. It's been plenty rough since then,
MG> but the other night I decided it was time to preserve my hard work, so I
MG> used Casper to back up.
MG> At the very end of the backup I got a warning from Zone Alarm Pro that
it
MG> had defended against something (not an intrusion). I tried clicking on
the
MG> OK button to make it go away but it wouldn't budge. Things appeared
frozen.
MG> Suddenly I got the dreaded Blue Screen of Death, just as I did before.
MG> After a major hissy fit, I calmed down and tried rebooting my main disk.
No
MG> luck.
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