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my friends laptop is overrun with adware and viruses, and i was wondering if there was an easy way to backup her entire hard drive to my computer ... to ensure i dont delete anything important... 
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backing up a laptop
- Thread starter shrinkydinx
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You can buy an external USB case for laptop hard drives for like $10 ebay. I had to get one to install Windows on my Laptop, as you see from my sig, I couldnt use a CD to install it. Or you can get a laptop IDE to desktop IDE convertor for liek $5 on ebay. I got the USB case because I thought someday if I ever get nice deal on a small laptop drive I could actually use it.
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thanks for the suggestions 
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My sugggestion is to use a program like ghost or drive image and an external USB or firewire drive.
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External drive with a live boot distro, such as Knoppix STD or PHLAK, and then use the DD utility.
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AMD Phreak said:
Thats a good one too
I have wanted to learn the DD utility for a while. Do you have any good links to guides? Perhaps write up a guide for the forum. I am sure it would get stickied
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I will have to do that, we use DD to do forensic work when there is data that has to be saved but not changed.
