Yes and Yes, that's all it takes. Use a drive imaging program such as Ghost or similar to make an exact copy of the HDD partitions.
If you don't have imaging software you can download a fully functional trial of BootItNG which includes drive imaging capability, but be aware that program does many other functions and is not exactly user friendly. Carl -----Original Message----- From: Windows Home/SOHO [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rich Koziol Sent: Friday, September 22, 2006 9:29 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Best way to Save/Backup new laptop Thanks Carl, On 22 Sep 2006 at 9:10, Carl Houseman wrote: > You can remove the laptop hard drive and connect it to a desktop PC for > backup using an inexpensive adapter cable. > > Google "2.5 3.5 ide adapter cable" for some choices. I like this one the best. I see CompUSA sells one for <$10. Looks like a pin converter with a short power cable. Is that all it takes? I should be able to simply copy the whole drive to another NTFS partition. If I had a failure, can I just grab anther 2.5" and copy the stuff to it? I'd like to do one clean save and anther after a setup - whatever that is. What a dance. These folks are too cheap to supply a CD/DVD. Give me the good old days, even with floppies. Regards, Rich -- ---------------------------------------- The WIN-HOME mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html
