I'll echo the "if you've made backups of your documents you don't need to clone" sentiment. I'd also burn a disk with install files for any programs you might have installed (firefox and whatever). As for your OS, yeah, you definitely don't want to buy it, but there should be a way to make your own recovery discs.
My computer is always yelling at me to do that. I didn't, and when my copy of Windows decided to eat itself I had to buy recovery discs from Microsoft. It was about $60.
A system restore is something you can do to your computer that takes the hard drive back to the state it was in when you bought the computer (or to various points in the past), but won't be much help if the actual mechanics of your hard drive are shot.
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Date: 2007-12-31 05:54 pm (UTC)My computer is always yelling at me to do that. I didn't, and when my copy of Windows decided to eat itself I had to buy recovery discs from Microsoft. It was about $60.
A system restore is something you can do to your computer that takes the hard drive back to the state it was in when you bought the computer (or to various points in the past), but won't be much help if the actual mechanics of your hard drive are shot.