From: Jaime on
Do you bother reading more that the first line of my post?

That is what I said.
--
James Wolf [MS-MVP]
Orlando, FL



"Rainald Taesler" <taesler(a)gmx.de> wrote in message
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> Jaime wrote:
>> scerab wrote:
>
>>> so what your saying is there is no way i can back up the windows on
>>> my lifebook?
>>> can I like download windows XP tablet PC edition from Microsoft, I
>>> have my key code.
>>> I downloaded all the drivers from the manufactures website.
>>
>> Yes, you could make an image of your computer (to an external drive
>> for instance) or clone it to another drive for emergency disaster
>> recovery. You can use that later to put the system back on the
>> computer, but that is not the same as reinstalling Windows. You would
>> just be making a exact copy of the system as it is at the time of the
>> imaging, so if you reformatted the drive and then used that image to
>> put the system back, it would be exactly as it was before the
>> reformat (more or less).
>
> Yes.
> But this obviously is not what the OP has in mind when he is talking of
> "format the machine".
>
> This would just be a snapshot of the situation given right in the
> moment. And therefore the image would just contain all of the
> irregularities which have grown over the years {siiigh}
>
> Rainald
>
From: Robert Aldwinckle on


"Rainald Taesler" <taesler(a)gmx.de> wrote in message
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> P.S. The links you posted unfortunately do not lead to any solution

They were both meant only to be justifications of the assertions I was
making--the context of which you snipped. ; }