Can I image my hard drive with an MS utility, and where would I find it?

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nsharazer

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.
 
M

Mike Hall - MVP

nsharazer said:
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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