04-15-2007, 03:05 PM
Your friend can make a full image of the drive with Norton Ghost or a similar program that make a ghost image of the hard drive. There are others, Norton Ghost is my fav.
It basically makes an image *or full copy* of the hard drive, but also shrinks it in order to fit it onto a smaller media. It has options to split it into smaller sections I think for DVD burning or something, but your friend could just go buy a removable HD, as it can store this for him and then let him do backups of important files in the future.
You then use the same program to take that image and copy it onto a new (or reformatted\wiped) hard drive.
It basically makes an image *or full copy* of the hard drive, but also shrinks it in order to fit it onto a smaller media. It has options to split it into smaller sections I think for DVD burning or something, but your friend could just go buy a removable HD, as it can store this for him and then let him do backups of important files in the future.
You then use the same program to take that image and copy it onto a new (or reformatted\wiped) hard drive.