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Posted by Gene E. Bloch on June 2, 2006, 2:49 pm
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On 6/02/2006, johncronin posted this:
> I just bought a new Toshiba Tecra Notebook. Normally I would ghost my hard
> drive but a DOS driver currently is not available for the Intel Pro/1000 PL.
> I looked everywhere. I would use XP backup and backup to a USB hard drive.
> But Toshiba refuses to provide an XP operating system disk to boot from to
> restore the backup. I called there tech support ands asked: "If you give me
> the ability to run XP backup then why wouldn't you provide a way for me to
> restore the backup?"
> They have no answer. I wonder if Microsoft knows their XP users are being
> compromised like this.
>
> Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
I'd suggest a third-party application such as Acronis True Image, which
is now in version 9 (I have 8, myself).
It can back up from Windows or a boot CD that it lets you create. It
supports restore from the boot CD (duh!). The boot CD supports external
drives, unlike some older versions of various programs I have used.
IIRC, it can image your current drive onto a new drive if you are
upgrading your drive or if you fear the old one is failing.
There are other apps as well, but I like this one. Naturally, YMMV.
Some fo the reasons I like it are features that the others didn't have,
but newer versions of them now have those features (example, the
ability to access an external drive from the boot CD). Check reviews on
the web at the usual sites, whatever that means :-)
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Gene E. Bloch (Gino)
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