Backup Vista OS as slave

[apeg]

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

 

[Ferg]

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?

 

[apeg]

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