There are many ways to re-image a Gateway Netbook without a disc. You can make your own iso copy of the system, or download a copy from a trusted, reputable source online. When in doubt, check with your manufacturer.
The purpose of using a disk image is to emulate physical drives such as hard drives, CD and DVD drives. Using a disk image to clone a DVD drive allows one to play games without using the disc.
Gateway recovery disks are created for use as a backup to a Gateway System Recovery solution. Gateway System Recovery involves creating a partitioned area of the hard drive in which vital system programs are stored. In case the partitioned area becomes corrupted or inaccessible, a recovery disk can be used to reload the software necessary to restore the system.
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There is a process called disk duplication which is cloning the contents of one hard disk to another. This is done as installing a first computer, creating an image of the hard disk, and cloning the first disk, or its image, to other computers.
Drive Image software is a disk cloning application. It creates a disk image file that contains an exact, byte for byte copy of a hard drive or partition.
Laplink Disk Image is one recommended disk imaging software program. There are literally thousands of programs out there, not one necessarily the best out of them, and some examples include Clonezilla, Disk-Image and DriveImage Xml.
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WinImage or Undisker for image files IsoBuser for Iso files
The Disc Utility found in the Utilities folder within the Applications folder can burn a Disc Image (See links below). A disk image is a single file containing the complete contents and structure representing a hard drive, floppy disk or CD etc. On a Mac downloaded software is often delivered as a disk image designated with the .dmg extension.
It is perfectly safe as it will use your internal memory (HDD) to emulate a Disk Drive(s) in order to run the CD(DVD)-image file from your hard drive.
Find out what format the image is in, such as .jpg or.gif etc and download a mac compatible viewer for that type of image.
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