[GLLUG] Preparing an Old Laptop

[Eduardo Cesconetto]

Hi Chick, you can use dd to make an image and later restore, dd is  
also for windows, but it is kind of slow,  Acronis has the True  
image, which you can get a legal free trial fully operational for 15  
days, it's fast, but not open source. If you have space problems, you  
could create an image and then compress, I guess.
As to the size of the hard disks, there is 3 different heights for  
2.5"'s.
[]'s
Eduardo


On Jan 21, 2007, at 11:23 PM, Charles Tower wrote:

> I just bought an old WinBookXL (PII, 64MB RAM) that might be  
> difficult to get running with a modern Linux, but it was cheap.  I  
> would like to back up the 2GB hard disk and it's Win2000Pro and MS  
> Office installation, so that, if I decide to resell the laptop I  
> can offer it just as it is now.  The drive is a little over half  
> full.  It has a CD-ROM, not a burner; it has a floppy drive, but  
> I'd hate to back up using that.  I hope to use a 512MB flash drive  
> to transfer the backup to another hard disk for safekeeping, but I  
> do have a serial cable I could use with DirectConnect or whatever  
> they call that LapLink wannabe.  Do any of you know of free tools  
> that would allow me to restore the hard disk to its current  
> condition, able to boot Win2000Pro and run MS Office, after a  
> complete reformatting?  Being able to create back-up files no  
> larger than 500MB would be pretty handy, too.
>
> Another question I have concerns hard drives for laptops.  Are they  
> standard, so that I could easily get a replacement, and just swap  
> them out rather than back up what I have?
>
>                                Chick
>
>
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