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Laptop Backup

Hagar · 2005-12-14 09:38:16

I would like to take a complete backup of my laptop as in a disk image. I have a USB drive big enough to do it and Partition Magic 6. However I do not have a floppy drive so I can't make a bootable floppy. Can I make a bootable CD to do the same job? Or do I need other software? Thanks

14-12-2005 9:38am

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I would like to take a complete backup of my laptop as in a disk image.
I have a USB drive big enough to do it and Partition Magic 6. However I do not have a floppy drive so I can't make a bootable floppy. Can I make a bootable CD to do the same job? Or do I need other software?

Thanks

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#2 14-12-2005 9:58am

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you can make a bootable usb thumb drive using this
http://h18007.www1.hp.com/support/files/hpcpqdt/us/download/20306.html

create the boot floppy using virtual floppy drive
http://chitchat.at.infoseek.co.jp/vmware/vfd.html

and then use the hp utulity to copy the boot sector across to the usb drive

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