I recently had to mail in my Compaq laptop for service. The motherboard-integrated wireless failed and they will likely be replacing the motherboard. I suspect they will have re-imaged my drive before returning it. Before I mailed it off, I was smart enough to use DiskImage XML to create an .iso image of my Vista hard drive on an external USB back-up hard drive. I wasn’t smart enough to think of what I was going to do with that disk image once I got it back.
Here’s what I am now envisioning: use some small Linux distribution on a USB or a live CD to transfer my disk-image back onto my laptop’s internal hard drive. So, I think I just need Linux to do some drive formatting, some image file reading, and some image file expansion onto the laptop’s hard-disk. Can someone recommend how to go about doing this?
Thanks,
threemae