One can make an image of a hard drive by using a disk imaging utility software like Norton Ghost or Far Stone Total Recovery, these utilities will walk through the imaging process of the disk step by step and this will provide a backup when there is problem.
Yes, it is possible to upgrade your old hard drive by connecting a new one via the eSATA port. You can create a system image of your current hard drive and save it to the new drive. Once the imaging process is complete, you can replace the old hard drive with the new one, ensuring that you restore the system image onto it. Just make sure the new drive is compatible with your system and that you have the necessary software to create and restore the image.
While someone may be able to give you an image of that hard drive, it is important to note that, while you can look up the size and type of drive (HDD or SSD), companies often use different brands of hard drives at different times. A picture of someone's MSI hard drive might not tell you what brand will be in the one you get later
If a hard drive is clicking then a person should make a decision to try and back up or recover any files on the hard drive. Files on the hard drive can be recovered by using professional hard drive recovery systems.
The easiest way to make an internal hard drive portable is to purchase what's called a hard drive enclosure. Hard drive enclosures are kits that have everything you need to make your own portable hard drive. Make sure you get a hard drive enclosure that matches the size and interface type as your hard drive, as well as the means of connectivity that you wish. As an example, you can have a 3.5" IDE hard drive enclosure that connects to your computer with a USB cable. Most computer stores have hard drive enclosure. The best place to get one is probably tigerdirect.com. There are many of them available on eBay.
They can range from as small as 3 bytes for a single RGB 24bit pixel to as large as your hard drive for one image.
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The best tool that I have ever used to ghost a hard drive image to another hard drive is Symantec's Ghost software. Simply set up two hard drives and boot from Ghost's cd. Setup the program to copy from one location to the other and you will end up with a perfect clone.
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Connect to one your computers and make full format.
Defragment of your hard drive on a monthly basis is one way of maintaining the hard drive.
The Eee laptop lacks a CD / DVD rive. To install Windows on it, one needs to either plug an external drive into the USB port, or create an image of a hard drive with Windows already installed and use a cloning tool on a bootable USB drive to copy the image bit for bit to the Eee's hard drive.
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.