Ivan
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| posted on 7/5/08 at 04:57 PM |
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Restoring operating system and software
Am getting new laptop with Vista and Dealer installed Office Professional - Is there any way to save the setup and software so it can be restored if
there is a fault without going back to the dealer to reinstall MS Office?
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Paul TigerB6
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| posted on 7/5/08 at 05:06 PM |
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I had to restore my own laptop yesterday and did it with the recovery CD that came with the laptop. Put it right back to where it started and rid me
of a very nasty spyware (SmitFraud)
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mad4x4
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| posted on 7/5/08 at 06:01 PM |
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Get a program call Norton Ghost or it's newer equivalent this will let you mirror hardisks to DVDR etc.
Look for "hiren's Boot CD" on Google think a copy is included on that
Scot's do it better in Kilts.
MK INDY's Don't Self Centre Regardless of MK Setting !
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britishtrident
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| posted on 7/5/08 at 06:53 PM |
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Really what you want to do is make a mirror image of the partition.
Normally I do this using Partition Logic to image the partition to another IDE hard disk
http://partitionlogic.org.uk/index.html
But I have had problems with using this with USB devices ie USB mice & USB hard disks. But I haven't tried the latest version (0.7) yet.
Another boot cd that will do it is Ghost4Linux it can save via FTP so would work if you have a network hard disk (ie a NAS Disk) this would work fo
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