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<blockquote data-quote="2cvbloke" data-source="post: 750032" data-attributes="member: 199791"><p>Funnily enough, there are... <img src="https://www.satellites.co.uk/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/smile.png" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" data-shortname=":)" /></p><p></p><p>It's usually the ones with removable drives, the ones I know of were mainly Compaq, Toshiba and Dell, I don't know if they have any in their current lines of laptops, but I know that there are some laptops where you can hot-swap the DVD drive with a hard drive or battery. It's usually the small multi-purpose portables, with Toshiba that's usually the Portege & Tecra range, not sure about the other brands though... <img src="https://www.satellites.co.uk/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/smile.png" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" data-shortname=":)" /></p><p></p><p>But that said, it's easier just to get an external HDD and clone the main HDD onto that and then you have a backup to clone from, or you can backup partitions or entire drives to DVD-Rs when you first get them or do a fresh installation, used to do that when I was working at the local computer shop in Nelson, it's how they had their system images stored for the ones we built and put into stock... <img src="https://www.satellites.co.uk/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/smile.png" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" data-shortname=":)" /></p><p></p><p>And speaking of hidden partitions, I had a right palaver with the mother's Samsung NC10 Netbook recently, the HDD decided it was going to fail (turned out it was just being a PITA, so I have that in my desktop now), and trying to clone the drive's hidden backup partition was so annoying, most of the programs I tried refused to back up the hidden partition, and had to use Norton Ghost 2003 via Floppy disk (funny how the old ways work perfectly today, but don't use it with Vista or Windows7, it WILL screw up your installation), which had to be set to ignore errors, and within half an hour, it was done, netbook was working, complete with it's original partitions and the hidden backup partition... <img src="https://www.satellites.co.uk/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/smile.png" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" data-shortname=":)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="2cvbloke, post: 750032, member: 199791"] Funnily enough, there are... :) It's usually the ones with removable drives, the ones I know of were mainly Compaq, Toshiba and Dell, I don't know if they have any in their current lines of laptops, but I know that there are some laptops where you can hot-swap the DVD drive with a hard drive or battery. It's usually the small multi-purpose portables, with Toshiba that's usually the Portege & Tecra range, not sure about the other brands though... :) But that said, it's easier just to get an external HDD and clone the main HDD onto that and then you have a backup to clone from, or you can backup partitions or entire drives to DVD-Rs when you first get them or do a fresh installation, used to do that when I was working at the local computer shop in Nelson, it's how they had their system images stored for the ones we built and put into stock... :) And speaking of hidden partitions, I had a right palaver with the mother's Samsung NC10 Netbook recently, the HDD decided it was going to fail (turned out it was just being a PITA, so I have that in my desktop now), and trying to clone the drive's hidden backup partition was so annoying, most of the programs I tried refused to back up the hidden partition, and had to use Norton Ghost 2003 via Floppy disk (funny how the old ways work perfectly today, but don't use it with Vista or Windows7, it WILL screw up your installation), which had to be set to ignore errors, and within half an hour, it was done, netbook was working, complete with it's original partitions and the hidden backup partition... :) [/QUOTE]
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