Yet another PC died on me, and it was the hard disk this time.
Started to go through my spare PCs and found another hard disk had died, maybe they don't like being stored in a cold damp tin shed.
So this has got me wondering about creating hard disk images so I can just write the image to another drive and away I go again.
BUT here's the thing, I want to avoid doing the imaging on my Mach3 computer. I tend to strip XP down to the bone and disable all sorts of services, and I don't want to install any other software.
So is it possible to temporarilly remove the hardrive from the Mach3 PC and install it as a slave drive in my "imaging PC". Then I create the disk image, save it to file, then put the hard drive back in the Mach3 PC.
Likewise if I need to replace the Mach3 hard drive, I put a new drive in my "imaging PC" (as a slave drive), write the image to it, then put it in the Mach3 PC.
Feasible
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Keith.