E6410 laptop backup & restore obstacle

Got my son a new E6410 laptop. It's 32bit Win 7 professional. Seems to
be a nice system.

We're encountering an obstacle creating a system image via "backup and
restore". Specifically, we get an error msg: "one of the voulmes cannot
be included because it is missing or invalid...". Turns out that one
of the drives (D is FAT32, and backup and restore aborts.

There is only one physical 250gb hard drive. Drive C: is 230gb (NTFS).
D: appears to be a logical drive - that's only about 1.9 gb total.

I can see that D: contains some pre-installed Dell software (We haven't
installed anything on D: ourselves). One program I am able to clearly
identify is: "Dell Latitude On Reader 2.0 -First Time Wizard". I
don't think there are any Win 7 applications on D: -- but I'm not 100%
sure.

We really need to have a reliable backup to recover if ever has a need.
Some of his student software licenses (like office 2010) only allow for
two installs, then I'd have to pay full retail to replace them for him.
What other options would you guys suggest as a relaible method for
backing up his system? Or should I just convert D: to NTFS and loose
whatever usefulness "latitude on" might have so that Windows backup and
restore would be happy?

Thanks,
Bill
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Bill wrote:
Got my son a new E6410 laptop. It's 32bit Win 7 professional. Seems to
be a nice system.

We're encountering an obstacle creating a system image via "backup and
restore". Specifically, we get an error msg: "one of the voulmes cannot
be included because it is missing or invalid...". Turns out that one
of the drives (D is FAT32, and backup and restore aborts.

There is only one physical 250gb hard drive. Drive C: is 230gb (NTFS).
D: appears to be a logical drive - that's only about 1.9 gb total.

I can see that D: contains some pre-installed Dell software (We haven't
installed anything on D: ourselves). One program I am able to clearly
identify is: "Dell Latitude On Reader 2.0 -First Time Wizard". I
don't think there are any Win 7 applications on D: -- but I'm not 100%
sure.

We really need to have a reliable backup to recover if ever has a need.
Some of his student software licenses (like office 2010) only allow for
two installs, then I'd have to pay full retail to replace them for him.
What other options would you guys suggest as a relaible method for
backing up his system? Or should I just convert D: to NTFS and loose
whatever usefulness "latitude on" might have so that Windows backup and
restore would be happy?

Thanks,
Bill

your new machine should have something called "dell datasafe local
backup" that allows you to make recover disc as well as perform regular
backups. it is dell's way of saying that saving 50¢ and making their
customer figure out how to build their own recovery discs, which will go
untested until the day they are actually needed and probably not even
work, is smart business as well as a way to make the customer feel less
important and probably never come back for more. the same sort of logic
is probably why they recently coughed up that goofy thing called the
dell streak.
good of your to try to be proactive.
http://dslbdownload.ddsupdate1.com/DSLChecker-en.html
that fat 32 partition is the latitudes diagnostics partition, you don't
need it.

Bill wrote:
Got my son a new E6410 laptop. It's 32bit Win 7 professional. Seems to
be a nice system.

We're encountering an obstacle creating a system image via "backup and
restore". Specifically, we get an error msg: "one of the voulmes cannot
be included because it is missing or invalid...". Turns out that one
of the drives (D is FAT32, and backup and restore aborts.

There is only one physical 250gb hard drive. Drive C: is 230gb (NTFS).
D: appears to be a logical drive - that's only about 1.9 gb total.

I can see that D: contains some pre-installed Dell software (We haven't
installed anything on D: ourselves). One program I am able to clearly
identify is: "Dell Latitude On Reader 2.0 -First Time Wizard". I
don't think there are any Win 7 applications on D: -- but I'm not 100%
sure.

We really need to have a reliable backup to recover if ever has a need.
Some of his student software licenses (like office 2010) only allow for
two installs, then I'd have to pay full retail to replace them for him.
What other options would you guys suggest as a relaible method for
backing up his system? Or should I just convert D: to NTFS and loose
whatever usefulness "latitude on" might have so that Windows backup and
restore would be happy?

Thanks,
Bill

your new machine should have something called "dell datasafe local
backup" that allows you to make recover disc as well as perform regular
backups. it is dell's way of saying that saving 50¢ and making their
customer figure out how to build their own recovery discs, which will go
untested until the day they are actually needed and probably not even
work, is smart business as well as a way to make the customer feel less
important and probably never come back for more. the same sort of logic
is probably why they recently coughed up that goofy thing called the
dell streak.
good of your to try to be proactive.
http://dslbdownload.ddsupdate1.com/DSLChecker-en.html
that fat 32 partition is the latitudes diagnostics partition, you don't
need it.

On Wed, 04 Aug 2010 13:02:08 -0400, Christopher Muto wrote:

Bill wrote:
Got my son a new E6410 laptop. It's 32bit Win 7 professional. Seems to
be a nice system.

We're encountering an obstacle creating a system image via "backup and
restore". Specifically, we get an error msg: "one of the voulmes cannot
be included because it is missing or invalid...". Turns out that one
of the drives (D is FAT32, and backup and restore aborts.

There is only one physical 250gb hard drive. Drive C: is 230gb (NTFS).
D: appears to be a logical drive - that's only about 1.9 gb total.

I can see that D: contains some pre-installed Dell software (We haven't
installed anything on D: ourselves). One program I am able to clearly
identify is: "Dell Latitude On Reader 2.0 -First Time Wizard". I
don't think there are any Win 7 applications on D: -- but I'm not 100%
sure.

We really need to have a reliable backup to recover if ever has a need.
Some of his student software licenses (like office 2010) only allow for
two installs, then I'd have to pay full retail to replace them for him.
What other options would you guys suggest as a relaible method for
backing up his system? Or should I just convert D: to NTFS and loose
whatever usefulness "latitude on" might have so that Windows backup and
restore would be happy?

Thanks,
Bill

your new machine should have something called "dell datasafe local
backup" that allows you to make recover disc as well as perform regular
backups. it is dell's way of saying that saving 50¢ and making their
customer figure out how to build their own recovery discs, which will go
untested until the day they are actually needed and probably not even
work, is smart business as well as a way to make the customer feel less
important and probably never come back for more. the same sort of logic
is probably why they recently coughed up that goofy thing called the
dell streak.
good of your to try to be proactive.
http://dslbdownload.ddsupdate1.com/DSLChecker-en.html
that fat 32 partition is the latitudes diagnostics partition, you don't
need it.

Thanks.
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