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Copy Operating System from Laptop Hard Drive with a dead Motherboard

Hi,

I have a client who has a dead ASUS Laptop mainboard. The hard drive is fully functional. Since it is still under warranty i will be sending it in for repairs. ASUS tech. support requested that I backup the drive contents prior to shipment to them. Normally not a big deal but the client has two programs that he does not have the reinstall disks for.

Is there a way to image that entire drive and save the image until the laptop is returned?

I will have to connect the Laptop drive via a USB adapter to a desktop PC.

Thanks,

Frank

Shane McKeown

Download Clonezilla which will allow you to create a bootable CD
Boot that CD, before booting connect an external USB Hard disk(big enough to take whatever size the current internal drive is)
Boot up and go through the wizard to make a copy of the existing hard drive, make an 'Image' copy(which will create a file(s) on the USB HD

Once you get the laptop back do the same in reverse, boot to Clonezilla and do a Restore from Image option to the new drive

rw3admin

Personally, I'd just buy a new hard drive and swapt it out with the one that has the data on it, heck you could get a used one for cheap. That way you're not sending YOUR data somewhere you don't have control over it. AND if they screw up your machine, well, you didn't loose any data!

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flteng562

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Thanks nobus,

That worked like a charm!

nobus

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