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Hi everyone,

A question for all the IT gurus out there..........

My work laptop is a Durabook S15S, running vista business SP2.

Latley it has become real slow to boot and execute programs, and im worried its gona die soon...

I need a serial port for work, i use some outdated but essential automotive based programs, tryed USB/serial converters but no real luck with them. Cant seem to buy a laptop with a serial port anymore other than this one, at $3000 id like to ressurect this one if possible.

So, i would like to try and do a complete system restore, wipe the hard drive and start agian.
Im pretty sure i have all the CD's that came with it somewhere, but is it possible to create a mirror image of my harddrive, wipe it and restore it agian?
Im sort of tech savvy, computer stuff is usualy no problem for me, but i tryed to restore my wifes asus laptop when it died from a backup made through windows vista and was unsuccessfull, although a complete wipe fixed hers but we lost everything on it.

I have backed up all my important data incase this thing dies,, but would like to retain all my programs in their current config and not have to relicence them.

Is this possible?

Thanks in advance guys

Steve

Hi Steve, I'm not a tech guru, but if you create an mirror image, I believe you just copy your problems across.