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To: Cheeky Kid who wrote (75214)	4/30/2011 3:22:47 PM
From: maceng2	Respond to of 110581

Thanks. You may well be right. I tried to find the guy and the post that mentioned these CD discs, but I forgot to mark it. Message 20694454 Once you can boot up your PC, locate a verifyable recent image of your HD, and have a working Hard Drive, you should be in business with Acronis, Norton Ghost or whatever. However, the point is that normal magnetic Hard Disks are the cheapest and most reliable media. In fact destroying the data is more of a problem. I keep electronic ISO copies of all my CD and DVD disks, and yes this data is kept on a separate partition and that is periodically imaged so that data is good once I have one good external hard drive with a good image on it. I use Alcohol 120% but a free version of 52% is sometimes available and I use those for my notebooks that do not have a DVD drive. (all memory is on chips) I use the virtual drives that come with the software to load up ISO disks which I can also burn to CD's DVD's whatever. I back the notebooks up over the network. alcohol-soft.com There is plenty of similar software out there, may even be free. I keep a good stock of recovery disks to boot into, including Acronis, Norton, and Paragon partition software. I can boot up from any of these recovery disks. I keep CD copies and an external HD in a fire proof box so I am good for lightning strikes and most natural disasters. I don't have an original CD for Acronis though, and because I have ISO copies on hard drives, dont really need one. Everyone one is different, but I like and prefer to keep multiple options open when my PC takes a nosedive. Booting up in the alternate OS is the usual immediate action. I have a lot of software I use, so the programs are spread across both Win 7 and XP with some programs on both OS's.