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I've been hunting for a utility that is very similar to the vista backup utility, but can't seem to find one. I'm looking for something that will be used to scan an external drive for music, pictures, email, any other user data, then let you select which of these you want to backup, then backup all the data to dvds or an external HD. The vista util allows you to do this, but it wants to schedule backups for the pc its running from and it only backs up files from ntfs file systems. The basis for this will be to backup laptop hard drives which windows has failed on, and they need to be wiped. The drive will be attached to a desktop, then hopefully a program can scan the external drive and proceed to backup user data. The laptop drives will have fat32 and ntfs partitions on them. Any ideas would be appreciated. I also don't want the software to do any kind of incremental backup, as each drive will be a different clients and a full fill backup will be needed. Sorry if this was posted in the wrong place, couldn't decide where to put it.

I've recently run into an issue, regarding drvindex.inf I just moved into this job, and part of it is maintaining images for IBM Laptops. Basically 2 of the images do not automatically install pnp devices such as printers, cameras, etc. It prompts you for the location of various files, all of which should be included in drivers.cab, and can be extracted and it works properly, however this image is going on lots of student computers, and the issue needs to be fixed rather then worked around. I know the image was created from a base XP build which did use the BTS Driver packs, and was pretty heavily modified with application installs, and reg edits, but I didn't personally make them so I don't have a ton of details. This same build was used to make approx 8 different images and all but two of them work properly. However on two images, an IBM R40 and IBM T40 the drvindex.inf file is completely missing from C:\windows\inf\ I tried copying the inf file from a different computer, however windows still does not seem to be using it, and prompts for the same files that I know are located in drivers.cab Any help would be greatly apprciated. Posted in Unattended as the most post regarding drvindex.inf came up and thought this would be the best place to start. Tks for any assistance.