I have 160 gb hard drive and this past week my Computer blew up. To make a long story short, something I installed interefered with my internet settings and I theorized about reinstalling from a 'respawn disk' that I have.
I periodically take back ups of all the family photos and ytmnds and whatever I have saved to my PC onto a DVD or CD-rom. But there is a lot of crap like a saved game, or a registered product that maybe I will forget about (I have a few things for extracting sound files or graphics from a DVD) that I wasn't looking forward to finding and re-registering.
I have seen some external hard drives, but they do not appear to be 'bootable' and I am not sure there are a true image.
I have also seen a product called 'acronis true image', although I am not sure this is what I want.
Is there a simple solution though where I can buy an external drive or something, make a nice back up of the hard drive EXACTLY as it is. no 'restore point', no 'partial back up', its an exact image of the drive when the system was 'working'.
Then easily 'replace' the existing drive with this
stored one? Preferably bootable.
I'd rather not have a virtual raid disk, I did some research into this, and that cuts down on my space and requires some goofing around with the internal wiring/controller card.
