Hi, I have a dell laptop running Windows 2000. Lately, it seems to me that the hard disk is being accessed too often and makes a lot of noise. At times during boot the sytem fails to recognize the hard disk. I guess the hard disk is in the brink of failure. I am thinking of getting a new hard disk for this laptop. Since there is a lot of installed software in this machine, I was wondering if there is a way to mirror this hard disk image into some backup disk. Later when I get my new disk I can get this disk image into my new hard disk, so that I have the exact system configuration in my new disk. Thanks for the help. Sreekumar _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota Help beta test TCLUG's potential new home: http://plone.mn-linux.org Got pictures for TCLUG? Beta test http://plone.mn-linux.org/gallery tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list