Re: [H] Backing up Win7 woes - an update with more woes

2010-10-10 Thread Gaffer
On Friday 08 October 2010 19:59:12 Soren wrote: > Booting from a normally usable floppy on CD (floppy disk emulation), > it only generates this exact error message: > > "Type the name of the command interpreter (e.g., > C:\WINDOWS.COMMAND.COM) A>" Basically that error message is saying "I can't fi

Re: [H] Backing up Win7 woes - an update with more woes

2010-10-10 Thread Soren
Thanks, but unfortunately a no-go. Acronis has a link on their web site referring to issues with the laptop I'm trying to back up (HP). From what I could dig up on the net, Norton Ghost 2003 should support win7 without any problems (using CLI), only newer versions should not be working properl

Re: [H] Backing up Win7 woes - an update with more woes

2010-10-09 Thread Josh MacCraw
As Ghost is not "serving that" either, maybe you should try the Acronis boot disk, no? On 10/8/2010 11:59 AM, Soren wrote: To say it straight, forget about Linux's dd, and Acronis in this case, as I want absolute reliablity, and neither do serve that. I know Symantec is working on a new versi

Re: [H] Backing up Win7 woes - an update with more woes

2010-10-08 Thread Soren
Thanks for the input so far on this. Suffering from a bad knee injury keeping me immobile even for computer use for weeks, the status now is: The laptop is still an HP G62 i3 dual core w/4GB RAM, and 320GB SATA 7.200 HDD. BIOS is upgraded to latest version. HP support isn't helpfull, to say th