My XP Home running laptop hard drive has started making clicking and grinding sounds. Previous questions cover cloning the hard drive. This is more desirable than reinstalling everything or just backing up My Documents and Settings. Is it possible to create a clone or an image or something that is stored on my home server indefinitely, so that once my hard drive does die I can use it to recreate the current settings on a new drive?
posted on Jun 14, 2008 - 8 answers

I have a "perfect" MS Vista setup that I need to clone or deploy to another 20 computers. The hardware is identical and it all needs to be done in a hurry. [more inside]
posted on Apr 5, 2008 - 13 answers

The disk in my MBP was upgraded from 100GB to 250GB. They used a hardware disk to disk copier that just cloned the drive, bit for bit. Now, I want to grow my 100GB partition to fill up the new space, however Disk Utility only sees the drive as 100GB. I know there are some $100 utilities out there, but I am a geek and want to do it for free. [more inside]
posted on Jan 15, 2008 - 17 answers

My google-fu only goes so far: I'm looking for succinct summaries, explanations, and justifications of various religions' opinions/support/criticism on human cloning... [more inside]
posted on Dec 4, 2007 - 2 answers

Can I back up / clone my Mac HD to an external HD then swap the Main and external drives? [more inside]
posted on Nov 12, 2007 - 15 answers

Yahoo Answers/Quomon.com software clone recommendations? [more inside]
posted on Aug 10, 2007 - 1 answers

One of the disks in my hardware RAID 0 system drive array is failing, but it's still booting for the moment. Is there any tool I can use to clone just the failing physical disk to another identical one? [more inside]
posted on Jul 6, 2007 - 9 answers

I want to install a bigger hard drive to my laptop. How do I clone the current hard drive to the new one so I don't have to reinstall windows on the new disk? [more inside]
posted on May 9, 2007 - 10 answers

I'd like to know how to clone DVDs on a Mac. [more inside]
posted on Feb 21, 2007 - 11 answers

We need multiple laptops to have identical computing environments, with the ability to have them updated en masse. What is the best way? [more inside]
posted on Nov 28, 2006 - 5 answers

4 Bigshot users. Highly customized profiles. All getting new (different) hardware. How do I get the new machines "the way I had it before" for them without spending a week re-doing all the software customizing that they can't tell me how they did in the first place? [more inside]
posted on Nov 6, 2006 - 11 answers

"No, I'm your husband." "No, shoot him! He's the imposter!" Where'd this come from? [more inside]
posted on Nov 5, 2006 - 27 answers

I need to make an exact clone of a MacBook Pro drive onto an external (fw) drive, which will then be used as the MBP's internal drive. [more inside]
posted on Oct 9, 2006 - 9 answers

Please help me with a Hard Drive "Tower of Hanoi" puzzle. [more inside]
posted on Sep 25, 2006 - 6 answers

In Windows XP: Migrating from the general Administrator Account to a Personal User Account...how? [more inside]
posted on Jul 19, 2006 - 7 answers

I live in Canada and cannot buy Marzetti Original Slaw Dressing. I have tried twice, but cannot get the egg taste. Even with 3 eggs, sugar and oil in a double boiler, I cannot get the taste right. Can anyone help?
posted on May 14, 2006 - 5 answers

Please identify a plant for me given this description: [more inside]
posted on Apr 6, 2006 - 8 answers

How do I best clone a hard disk with bad sectors, when the PC spontaneously reboots upon hitting said bad sectors? [more inside]
posted on Oct 4, 2005 - 7 answers

When I open a new window in Firefox, it opens to my home page. In Explorer, new windows opened to the same URL as the existing open window, which I much prefer. How can I change my settings so that Firefox will do the same and I'm not forced to trudge back to Explorer?
posted on Dec 28, 2004 - 16 answers

Another boooooring computer question - sorry!

How do I clone a HD in a win2k system? My system's boot hd is a 20g 5400 rpm. I'd like to swap it for a 20 g 7200 rpm which is sitting at the moment in an external firewire enclosure. I also have 150g in an internal RAID array.

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posted on May 20, 2004 - 6 answers

Of all the free metafilter clones which one would you recommend as the best for someone who knows html, but not really any programming? What makes it good?
posted on Jan 17, 2004 - 3 answers