At 03:59 AM 10/30/2004, Noel Stoutenburg wrote: >FWIW, its a Windows machine, so "Carbon Copy is not an available option, >and I'm unaware of a similar product in the Windows world.
I'm not sure exactly what Carbon Copy does, but there are lots of types of backup software for Windows; Dennis has given you several pointers. I think of them in three general types: (1) traditional backup software, like Backup MyPC ( http://www.stompsoft.com/backupmypc.html ), (2) realtime backup, like Second Copy ( www.centered.com ), and ghosting software, like Norton Ghost.
>Get the boot drive just exactly the way I want it, >then burn the image to a bootable DVD-ROM. Boot from the DVD. Goodbye >worries about corrupted boot sectors, virii, and worms. Most immediate >hurdle of this for me is that I don't yet own a DVD burner, and I doubt >that OS (even an old one) and all of the files from applications that >have to reside on the boot drive could be burned onto a CD.
Not to mention the fact that the contents of your boot drive will change. At a minimum, the OS needs write access to the registry.
In addition to the other suggestions you've received, you might want to check out SpinRite from www.grc.com . This is an app with an almost cultlike following that can fix all kinds of low-level corruption. If you have a working machine on which you can download it and put it on a floppy, it wouldn't entirely surprise me if it could fix your boot sector issues on your broken drive.
Aaron.
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