[Soundy]

None of them will do him much good if he can't use a keyboard and mouse... the point is, a backup utility that will let him boot from a CD is generally less troublesome than something you have to install first - cloning a running system has never worked particularly well for me. When we used Ghost 4 when I worked at ICBC, it was always from a boot floppy, and was always flawless. When we used newer versions at the tech school, that too was booting either from floppy, CD, or PXE, never from a copy installed on the machine to be cloned.

Without VLKs, even XP needs to be reactivated if you move an installation to new hardware. With each successive version (Vista and 7), the reactivation just gets more restrictive and more painful.