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Originally Posted by thumper
soundy: how involved is that? i can dig up a USB mouse and keyboard, but is it an automated process through windows 7?
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I don't know about the HP or Win7... when I set up a Vista-loaded Sony VAIO notebook, it had a utility that created a set of recovery DVDs automatically, but that could have been a Sony thing.
There are a few different ways to do it - if you want the entire system backed up, I'd use something like Paragon or Drive Image to create an image of the drive, then restore that image onto the new machine when it comes. If you just want to back up your data and files, you can just plug in the external drive, and copy the files to it. Some external drives have backup software of their own as well.
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Originally Posted by Rogue951
or go to ncix, buy an externail 2.5" hard drive enclosure, put the drive in that and dump away.
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Then you have the enclosure sitting around empty after you send the netbook back. And you have to take the drive out of the netbook, which may void the warranty and screw you right there (assuming it's even easy to do - my ASUS needs to be disassembled somewhat to swap the drive).