zigzag, I'm wondering with acronis, do you have to have a CD Writer on the same machine? or can it create an ISO file? also since the amout of data is in the tens of Gigabytes, do I have to put all the image on CD or You can put some of the image files on an external harddisk?
I just found out you can create a bootable CD and load up your backed up paritions from any external storage, also I just disovered that the laptop does have a DVD-RAM player, so that solves my questions :)
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