I know this question has been visited and revisited, but I can't seem
to find anyhting recent or completely relevant....

I have a Fujitsu T-3010D TabletPC; a great little computer, I'm using
it every day with great success. However, there's ONE little problem
with it - it has NO Restore Disk. Itr has DriveImage SE that'll back
up the system toi a partition on the same drive. Well, that's no help
at all when the most common problem on laptop computers is drive
failure.

I've recently done the chat thing with Fujitsu Service; I asked them
whether to install WinXP SP2 (they say yes) and also whether I could
get a restore disk, so that I can replace the HDD (they say no). They
suggested that I either buy the HDD from them, with WinXP TabletPC
edition already installed (somewhere around $500 for an 80GB drive,
thank you very much) or buy over-the counter WinXP and install that.
Now, even I know that WinXP TabletPC HAS to be supplied by the OEM in
a restore disk - there's no other way..... I don't think the regular
Joe on the street is going to get their hands on WinXP Development or
Enterprise edition install disks.... So, even after I pushed a bit,
they just stuck to their line, "There is no Restore disk available";
clearly there's some issue I don't understand - it'd cost them a few
cents to produce a CD with a restore image on it.

Anyways, that brings me to my questions.... I've seen some stuff about
making an "install image" for WinXP TabletPC edition (an image to be
burned to a CD-R? I think?)- do I need to have an Enterprise install
disk, or can I make this promising-sounding thing from what's on my
HDD?

If not, then how about Norton Ghost 2003? could I use something like
this to restore my system? The obvious problem is that I don't have a
floppy or CD drive that I can boot the tablet from - I'd have to
restore the image by taking a new notebook HDD and installing it in a
desktop computer with an adapter, writing a drive image to it, and
then putting it into the tablet again.... Well, I think this might
work, but I don't know....

Bottom line.... how do I do this without a restore CD???? Any help
would be appreciated!

Thanks!
ECM

"ECM" <thedeepabyss@whoever.com> wrote in message
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> I know this question has been visited and revisited, but I can't seem
> to find anyhting recent or completely relevant....
>
> I have a Fujitsu T-3010D TabletPC; a great little computer, I'm using
> it every day with great success. However, there's ONE little problem
> with it - it has NO Restore Disk. Itr has DriveImage SE that'll back
> up the system toi a partition on the same drive. Well, that's no help
> at all when the most common problem on laptop computers is drive
> failure.
>
> I've recently done the chat thing with Fujitsu Service; I asked them
> whether to install WinXP SP2 (they say yes) and also whether I could
> get a restore disk, so that I can replace the HDD (they say no). They
> suggested that I either buy the HDD from them, with WinXP TabletPC
> edition already installed (somewhere around $500 for an 80GB drive,


The lack of a full OS install CD for TabletPCs is a major MS faux paux.

> thank you very much) or buy over-the counter WinXP and install that.
> Now, even I know that WinXP TabletPC HAS to be supplied by the OEM in
> a restore disk - there's no other way..... I don't think the regular
> Joe on the street is going to get their hands on WinXP Development or
> Enterprise edition install disks.... So, even after I pushed a bit,
> they just stuck to their line, "There is no Restore disk available";
> clearly there's some issue I don't understand - it'd cost them a few
> cents to produce a CD with a restore image on it.
>
> Anyways, that brings me to my questions.... I've seen some stuff about
> making an "install image" for WinXP TabletPC edition (an image to be
> burned to a CD-R? I think?)- do I need to have an Enterprise install
> disk, or can I make this promising-sounding thing from what's on my
> HDD?
>
> If not, then how about Norton Ghost 2003?

Yes or TrueImage www.acronis.com. Then you can use an external USB2 HD to
image the HD to or DVD. OR the internal HD can be removed and with an
adapter plug attached to a desktop and imaged there.

>could I use something like
> this to restore my system?

Yes or to install it to a new HD.

> The obvious problem is that I don't have a
> floppy or CD drive that I can boot the tablet from - I'd have to
> restore the image by taking a new notebook HDD and installing it in a
> desktop computer with an adapter, writing a drive image to it, and
> then putting it into the tablet again....

Exactly, usually that's quick and easy.

> Well, I think this might
> work, but I don't know....
>
> Bottom line.... how do I do this without a restore CD???? Any help
> would be appreciated!
>
> Thanks!
> ECM

"root" <postmaster@buchanangc.com> wrote in message news:<uTyOC9khEHA.2764@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl>...
> "ECM" <thedeepabyss@whoever.com> wrote in message
> news:93903fca.0408191435.381ac646@posting.google.c om...
> > I know this question has been visited and revisited, but I can't seem
> > to find anything recent or completely relevant....
> >

***BLAH BLAH ***

> > If not, then how about Norton Ghost 2003?
>
> Yes or TrueImage www.acronis.com. Then you can use an external USB2 HD to
> image the HD to or DVD. OR the internal HD can be removed and with an
> adapter plug attached to a desktop and imaged there.
>
> >could I use something like
> > this to restore my system?
>
> Yes or to install it to a new HD.
>
> > The obvious problem is that I don't have a
> > floppy or CD drive that I can boot the tablet from - I'd have to
> > restore the image by taking a new notebook HDD and installing it in a
> > desktop computer with an adapter, writing a drive image to it, and
> > then putting it into the tablet again....
>
> Exactly, usually that's quick and easy.
>
> > Well, I think this might
> > work, but I don't know....
> >
> > Bottom line.... how do I do this without a restore CD???? Any help
> > would be appreciated!
> >
> > Thanks!
> > ECM


Thanks for the reply. I can get Symantec Systemworks Pro OEM for about
$15 with shipping - it includes Norton Ghost 2003. I'd assume it
doesn't include a subscription, but I've already got antivirus and
firewall. I've heard about TrueImage, but it's running $50 and I'm
trying to be economical (ie. cheap). I was thinking of backing up an
image over the network to CD-R's on a shared CD-RW - any idea whether
this would work?

Thanks for the info!
ECM