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    P-series restore disks/backup solution

    Discussion in 'Gateway and eMachines' started by GilmourD, Oct 24, 2009.

  1. GilmourD

    GilmourD Notebook Consultant

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    I am wondering, since I'm quite intent on buying a P-7975u, if the P-series laptops come with a utility similar to their Acer Aspire cousins. This utility of which I speak allows you to create backup DVDs which return you to absolute bone-stock factory settings. I'm just wondering just in case I find a good deal on some huge hard drives for the thing and decide to do a striped RAID setup and I figure that an untainted image would be better than a backup of an already set up and used installation. :)
     
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    sentence Notebook Consultant

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    the problem i see with that is, putting an image from a non-raid set-up onto a raid set-up doesnt work because the image wasnt distrubuted among two drives previously...
    i could be wrong...but thats just how i think it works ^^
     
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    GilmourD Notebook Consultant

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    well, the system would see the two drives as one. it's just a copy operation.
     
    GilmourD, Oct 24, 2009
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