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Today, the disk in my Toshiba Portégé 3500 has decided to start dying on me - great. Just what I need after my server odyssey.

Instead of going for a replacement of the same type, I will however switch to a larger, 80GB disk of a different brand as I have seen too many of the Toshiba-supplied disks die in my colleagues' machines...

To get my data across, I will give Norton Ghost 9 personal a spin, which seem to have some cool features like hot drive imaging to any disk or network resource and a downloadable and burnable boot CD that allows to restore these images - even from the network (!) to a fresh disk. This looks to me like a very interesting backup-solution for laptops anyway, as selective files can be restored from a disk image or incremental images can be created.

Check for these entries in the system event log
if you are looking for some extra data-recovery-fun.