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Pastimes : Dream Machine ( Build your own PC ) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Surfer who wrote (14311)	11/24/2003 9:43:24 AM
From: Louis V. Lambrecht	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14778

You really want to be safe? The offer of your manufacturer can be a trick: once he can prove that you've been with a screwdriver in their PC, warranty is void. Better send the whole PC back for servicing. There is no warranty on your data, but most manufacturers would plainly perform the driveimage themselves to avoid any discussion.

To: Surfer who wrote (14311)	11/24/2003 1:07:46 PM
From: Jon Tara	Respond to of 14778

Don't do it! Not unless they will ship you a new drive, and let you ship back the old drive after you have copied to the new drive. I certainly wouldn't go to all that trouble of reinstalling everything if the drive is still functional enough to run XP without problems. You should be able to make an image successfully. (Actually, I would NOT make a "sector by sector image". That is not necessary, and could make it difficult or impossible to make a copy. Most drive copying programs have an option - the one most commonly used - that will do an "intelligent" copy - where the program understands the file system being copied - and will allow you to copy to a larger or even smaller drive (if you have free space now), resize your partitions while you are copying, etc. This type of copy is more likely to have success if you have suspicions that there might be some problem with file system integrity.