I have a laptop that died on me, its still under warrantee so I have arrange to get the laptop serviced. But I have been told my drive will get cleaned out. I cant boot up the system because the laptop is 100% dead. I have pulled to drive out and attached it to my desktop via enclosure. What program could I make an image of the drive that I could recover from once I get the laptop back. I have tried Norton Ghost 14 but there is no option to backup your non-os running drive. Ideas? Thanks -aPeG
I don't think you'll really want to make a whole image of the drive - they should install everything when they service it. I'd just whip the files off - a standard backup i do of peoples comps is: Everything in my doc's Everything in C:\Documents and Settings\user\Local Settings\Application Data Everything in C:\Documents and Settings\user\Application Data That should let you get back up and running quite well. Other than that I hear good things about Acronis disk director but never encountered it myself. Best of luck! Btw I have an old version of ghost 10 that will image any drive to drive, are you sure it is unable to do this?
The laptop is getting serviced only for the video card, not sure why they are going to erase the drive, but I don’t want to start again from scratch. My computer was virus/spyware free, the hardware problem is the only reason I can’t get in. I looked thought Ghost 14 but could not find the option to image a drive that was not running the current OS, they made it 2 idiot proof. I will give Acronis a try and see what I cant do Thanks
