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Imaging a hard drive for backup purposes.

Chippy088 — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 16:31:30 +0000

I had a situation recently where a laptop harddrive died completely.

We installed a new drive and reimaged it, but the drivers were missing off the standard os image, and I had to re-install the drivers for the onboard devices. (Biometric security etc) I had problems getting the drivers for the laptop, (1 year old) off the manufacturers website. No maintenance contract.

I started to think about the problems a dead HDD can cause, if they bought more of this laptop model.

I want to back up the backup ( D: ) drive on new laptops to a DVD disc, so we can revert the laptop to factory defaults when we dispose of it.

I know you can do system backups to DVD disc, and I wondered if any one else works this way, and if so, how others have solved the problem.

image HDD, save to folder, transfer to new HDD

Pmgtwo — Sat, 25 Dec 2010 19:33:50 +0000

Is there a way to image including OS, failing HDD from PC #1, save to folder or Desktop on PC #2 then migrate back to new HDD on PC #1?

Accessing backups on Windows XP SP3

Newbie2 — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 05:03:58 +0000

i use apricorn to clone and backup. i switchout hard drives every 6mos (500gb)
what happens if i don’t have lap top any longer(stolen) or vgcard failure, how can i access photos and applications. i have accessed photos via backup but photos can only be opened one at a time(opencloseopennew). is there a better way to access photos aka via slideshow.
what are the true differences between cloned and backupped hard drives?
btw i have tried virtual box but ran into “technical difficulties”= i like smart media , i am thinking of buying a new wind 7 machine for that purpose.
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AS/400 Hard Drive Copying

Kidgrok — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 15:43:06 +0000

To anyone’s knowledge, can an AS/400 68-pin SCSI 1GB hard drive be copied or “cloned” such that the new drive will boot up exactly the way the original did (i.e., like “Ghosting” a PC drive)? Is there any other way to deal with a drive that is experiencing random seek errors that prevent an AS/400 9402 FO2 system from reaching a log-in screen before erring out with 6104FFF4 in register 2. Thanks!