"nsharazer" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Can I image my hard drive with an MS utility, and where would I find it?
>
> Box Emachine T5224
> PS Antec Earthwatts 500
> Software Diskeeper 2008 Home Edition
> Office 2007 Small Business
> Norton Internet Security 2009
> OS Windows Ultimate Upgraded after fresh install of
> Windows Home Premium from restore partition on Machine
> PCIe VGA PNY GeForce 8800 GT 512MB 256-bit PCI-E 2.0 DirectX 10
> SLI Video Card
> Memory 2GB Kingston DDR PC-6400 Hyper-X 2*1 GB 800 MHz RAM
> SATA HD 2 X Western Digital WD2500JS
> DVD Burner 2 X HP DVD Writer 1040r
> Monitor Hp vs17
>
>
>
> Other machines
>
> Acer 5135 160 GB Sata HD , (changed from factory 60 GB), 2 GB 667 MHz DDR
> 2 Kingston Memory, Laptop to be upgraded from Vista Basic to Vista
> Ultimate
> and have Office reinstalled.
>
> HP Pavilion a705w 300 GB IDE HD (changed from factory 60 GB), 1 GB RAM XP
> Home edition
>
> I want to completely redo my home machine and Image the HD when done due
> to problem with activation of office.
>
>
> On the e-machines box IE keeps locking up after the upgrade and throwing
> a
> slew of red Xs in the reliability monitor. I am tired of this, and now
> the
> machine boots really slowly. I have the system restore disabled, and I
> defrag my hard drives with Diskeeper 2008 and keep my hard drive free of
> trash. The problem is that I have installed office 2007 on my other two
> machines and have activated it about 5 or 6 times because of upgrades to
> hardware and equipment that I have made, and had to reinstall the OS and
> all applications including office. When I installed Office the last time,
> I
> had to activate it by phone and Outlook doesn't function. Now, I am stuck
> with a Vista Ultimate upgrade that has been activated, which is fixing to
> be
> uninstalled because it is really frustrating me. I paid for Office 2007
> and
> Vista Ultimate. I want to use office on the three machines that I have,
> and
> put Ultimate on another machine (a laptop). What is going to happen when
> I
> reinstall Ultimate and try to put it on the machine I want to use it on
> now
> (the laptop) and try to activate both of them? If I can't do this because
> of hardware upgrades, specifically changing to larger hard drives in the
> laptop and both my other computers, I am going to be really mad. Also,
> there is no way in Vista to do a backup and be able to restore the stuff
> (applications and the OS) on a larger hard drive like the XP Backup does
> which is
> really frustrating
>
> I need to make images, so I can stop reinstalling the OS without
> activating it and Office and stop activating that as well. Please keep it
> simple.
Use a decent third party application to do this. As you will need an
external device to back up to, you might want to consider getting an
external 'one touch' backup device which is supplied with backup software..
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