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Kaenash
March 19, 2006 3:06 PM

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.

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crabby March 19, 2006 3:10 PM	WHOOP THAT TRICK!
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BigFrank105 March 19, 2006 3:15 PM	quote: WHOOP THAT TRICK! Crabby, you are the balls.
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boorite March 19, 2006 5:10 PM
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biped March 19, 2006 5:15 PM	LOL, Gary Glitter This is for you, crabby: http://whooptrick.ytmnd.com/
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dcomposed March 19, 2006 9:31 PM	This is a serious thread dongs.
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crabby March 19, 2006 9:40 PM	quote: This is for you, crabby: http://whooptrick.ytmnd.com/ Bookmarked.
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crabby March 19, 2006 9:40 PM	quote: This is for you, crabby: http://whooptrick.ytmnd.com/ Bookmarked.
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crabby March 19, 2006 9:41 PM	quote: quote: This is for you, crabby: http://whooptrick.ytmnd.com/ Bookmarked. Twice.
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Kaenash March 19, 2006 10:06 PM	so all I have to do is install the whoop that trick and stare at random pics and jibber jabber? great. I'll get right on that.
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boorite March 19, 2006 10:18 PM	The answer is, I don't know. But you have to admit, that Gary Glitter pic is fucking hilarious.
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BigFrank105 March 19, 2006 10:26 PM	ytmnd solves all of lifes problems
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crabby March 19, 2006 10:41 PM	quote: ytmnd solves all of lifes problems Speaking of which, http://whooptrick.ytmnd.com/ .
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boorite March 19, 2006 11:06 PM	Sorry, Kaenash. This should be more helpful: But it isn't.
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crabby March 19, 2006 11:09 PM	quote: Sorry, Kaenash. This should be more helpful: But it isn't. Damn..... WHOOP THAT TRICK!
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DragonXero March 20, 2006 3:02 AM	quote: Sorry, Kaenash. This should be more helpful: But it isn't. Wait, when did Batgirl and Supergirl get involved in a lesbian relationship involving kinky tire play?
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kramer_vs_kramer March 20, 2006 3:53 AM	I'm just glad Kaenash remembered to back up his YTMNDs. What a loss it would have been if they were wiped.
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DragonXero March 20, 2006 10:38 PM	The world would have lost out on a great treasure had he not.
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BigFrank105 March 20, 2006 11:15 PM	You're the man now, DX
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boorite March 22, 2006 1:24 PM
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