![]() ![]() While this is relatively trivial under Linux, it is quite remarkable under Windows, and TrueImage Universal Restore actually works.įortunately, I was able to make a good backup of the failing Satellite system and repurposed the Toshiba to run text-mode Linux as an Asterisk VOIP server. Even more impressively, with the Universal Restore add-on, it can restore to a completely different hardware platform (different CPU, memory, disk, network, graphics, etc) and trick Windows into detecting and installing new drivers to create a functioning system. Cleverly, it can restore to a dissimilar-sized drive and still make everything work. Acronis is more than a file-backup tool, it can back up and restore the complete contents of the drive including all boot data. ![]() I typically use a product called Acronis TrueImage (I own the version 9 of the business-grade product line) to do my Windows backups. ![]() ![]() (It is interesting that even today NVidia is dealing with failures of chipset solder joints.) Under a graphical OS like Windows or Linux this corruption can quickly crash the system. This Satellite series apparently had a manufacturing defect wherein the NVidia graphics chipset (actually, probably the video RAM it used) would eventually develop a failure in a solder joint leading to memory corruption. This laptop was purchased in December 2007 as a replacement for a Toshiba Satellite laptop that had itself failed after many long years of diligent service. This account rather lacks in images and screengrabs because all of the interesting work was done in a bare-bones Linux text-mode environment where screengrabs were not practical. The circumstances behind the failure and the recovery are very enlightening, and I thought I would share. Recently I had to recover a Dell Vostro 1500 series laptop that had inexplicably become unbootable. ![]()
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