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Originally Posted by UPNext
it seems from what I have read that if the BIOS of a system (desktop or notebook) supports booting from a USB device you could use Acronis to "clone" your c:\ drive to a USB drive and then in an emergency change the Boot sequence in the BIOS to boot from the USB device. Older systems did not have this capability but newer ones do.
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Thanks UPNext. Now that you mention it, I do remember reading about a way to boot from some brand flash drives, and it did mention something in the article about the bios. Didn't interest me at the time, so I didn't bookmark it.
I had a hard drive take a dump due to bad bearings, which went a long way to develop my attitude against imaging on the same drive.
Thanks again for the heads up...I'll look into it if and when I decide to go laptop. Might even find a full blown hard drive with that capability. Things change.
December 22nd, 2007, 03:06 PM
Merry Christmas all. I have two laptops. What I do is image both of them to a USB external drive. If one of the laptops fails I can hook the other up and continue the show. Then simply drop a new drive in the one with the bad drive and boot it from the bootable cd and restore the image on the new drive. It is all in what you like. I also keep a complete backup of all my song files on the external. I just cannot imagine losing all 3 drives at the same time. To each his own. Happy Holidays.
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