Right now, I can't look in the mirror without calling myself stupid. I finally got around to removing the hard drive from my dead notebook computer and discovered I made a mistake when I bought the external hard drive case.
I'm now using Clonezilla to back up my MSI Wind netbook Windows XP partition, using a USB thumb (flash) drive. I actually found it by accident when I was looking for a suitable disk imaging application for Windows. For the uninformed, Clonezilla runs on Debian Linux.
While this primarily applies to netbooks without optical drives, it can apply to any PC that where the optical drive is missing or broken. You can indeed install from CD without any optical drive of any kind.
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