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I have a few service guys that go onsite to clients location for PLC programming. There have been a few times where their machine has crashed at the customer location. Blue screen, hard drive crash, you know.

I wanted a way to have the traveling user be able to restore their laptop with a known good image if this were to happen. Is there a cost effective program out there that can do this? I know acronius home would work, we could have a usb hd with the image, boot from a cd or flash drive, but that product is $74 a person.

Or I could just buy another HD for like $50 but then the user would have to swap it out, which I wanted to avoid.

Any simpler solution?

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shankshank

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Blundey thats what I am looking at doing. As far as the HD replacement, I have a dell contract for NBD delivery installation so that would help with the hardware part of it. I understand bluescreens can be hardware related, but 95% of the time here it is software related.

Blundey

Create a second partition on the existing hard drive and have the option to dual boot ? That way if one install fails, reboot and select the other install and continue to work. Other than that, not alot of choice!

shankshank

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Blundey. but if the HD fails we are out of luck

the other thing is with licensing. a purchased program seems as if they license per machine.. not per user.