Can you "ghost" a laptop hard drive.. Archived from groups: comp.sys.laptops () In my desktop PC I have a spare Hard drive that I connect up (internally) and boot from a floppy and ghost my main hard drive. This way if I ever have any problems I just install...

a hurry, you can ghost over a parallel port directly from DOS. Of course, you can make a CD and ghost from there to the laptop hard drive. If you regularly pop the drive out of your laptop, you're eventually gonna wear something out...or bend a pin or...

but useless across networks or to USB or Firewire drives. I carefully placed my copy of Ghost in the circular filing cabinet, and purchased Drive Image 7; perfect. It runs in Windows, and will ghost your laptops hard disk to any other disk it can see...

Good ideas. Thank you. Yea, the problem with DELL is they think you should pay $250 for upgrading to a 7,200 rpm drive when a new Hitachi OEm drive is $135 at NewEgg?! I agree with KN's comment on the CPU. I chose a better processor and am aware of hard drive...

CD but that didnt work out. $190 to replace the CD drive? That's insane. What do you mean ghosting the laptop drive to the new drive? The laptop hard drive is still good. How do I ghost a version of XP to it? If the old drive is still good, you can clone...

provide the users with a SW licence. But to ghost the laptop drives we had a small adapter that plugged into the back of a 2.5" HDD (laptop hard drive) and allowed you to then plug it into a 40 Pin IDE cable and 4 Pin power cable. I can't remember the supplier...

I had a usable external drive to which to clone or back up to, I loaded Ghost up on the laptop (XP) and it doesn't work. It starts to work - it finds the USB drive and I can set it as a destination. It gets as far as writing the file name of the Ghost image...

to consider. One method to get you up and running quickly would be to buy another laptop hard drive and put it in an external USB hard drive enclosure. Then use a Ghost-like program to make an image of it. If/when your hard drive crashes, you simply...

an easy way to clone a laptop hard drive.) >> *TimDaniels* A] 1)remove hard drive from laptop 2)insert laptop hard drive into desktop with special adapter (easy and cheap to find) 3)clone drive B] 1) use Norton Ghost (or similar) 2) send image...

so you >can stick your laptop drive in there. >>You could also take Ghost out of the equation by trying to copy a >large file from the laptop to the enclosure and seeing how fast it >is. If it's much faster than 5 hrs/4GB, you know Ghost is the >problem....