[gcrump]

Since my Fujitsu is now my primary machine, I need to get serious about backups and am planning to use drive image se. I have ton's of disk space on my network. So that should go fine. I have questions about the boot disk though. How are you doing that? Is there a paticular USB floppy to buy that the tablet can boot from? OR is there a CD that came with the unit that does the trick?

Thanks in Advance,

George

[twills]

George, as you know Drive Image Special Edition (DISE)comes with the Fujitsu and is located on the D partition. It allows you to create a floppy to boot from to in to restore to a previous point if the system becomes unstable. I already had a USB floppy from a Toshiba laptop which works fine the Fuji.

[flashgoirl]

Question along the same lines: If I have a Fujitsu and I use Drive Image to back it up - can I then restore that very same image to a second Fujitsu? I ask b/c I'm getting a replacement for my current one that has button issues.

Thanks!

[tonywms]

Technically yes you can. Drive Image will restore without a problem to another (your other) TPC without a problem. Upon completion and WinXP has booted, it may state that it has found new hardware (Probally will be just the wireless NIC card).

I just upgraded my Fujitsi 20 gig drive to a 40 and used drive image to back the 20 up and restore to the 40.

[DrRock]

I just got done doing this a few minutes ago. XP was screwed and wouldn't boot at all. I thought I was in trouble because I have didn't have a usb floppy to restore the drive image with DISE, which Fujitsu said I had to have, which is really messed up because restoring the drive image is the only reason I would ever need one. Tech support (which sucks compared to Compaq's) wanted to charge me $150 for an XP install. I ended up creating a floppy drive emulation with cd creator 5 and putting DISE on a cd and it booted right to it, no problem. The moral of the story is that there is no need to waste your money and buy a USB floppy.

[parker]

Flash - What button problems did you have with your Fuji? - What did Fuji tech support say?

[flashgoirl]

The problem was they didn't work at all. only the Control Alt Delete button worked. Fujitsu said it was bad hardware and sent me a new unit.

[Rindeblad]

My unit just broke down. It keep lock itself totaly and we have sent it back to Fujitsu.
Christer Rindeblad


quote:Originally posted by flashgoirl

The problem was they didn't work at all. only the Control Alt Delete button worked. Fujitsu said it was bad hardware and sent me a new unit.

[XDS]

Symantec ghost is what we use to prep pentabs. Specifically we use ghostcast via a boot diskette created by that program. Once you get it up and running, it is excellent. 30-45 minutes to do a drive dump of 8-10 GB of utilized drive. I back up my c500, st4000, and thinkpad once every week this way.

I believe that System works 2003 contains a network capable version of ghost.

I have tested several usb floppy drives, and the Fujitsus seem to be able to boot from all that I have encountered.

[panaclar]

My computer is unable to find the DISE Program. The icon is there, but it is unable to complete the restore operation. Any suggestion on how to locate the DISE Program.