I turned on my windows 2000 laptop and got an error message that no fixed disk was found. After I went "huh.... " I turned it off and, who knows why, I unplugged it and removed the battery. Maybe just a knee jerk reaction. Anyway, I plugged it back in and turned it back on and it started up, but it took about 10 times longer than normal. After that I rebooted it and it started up normally.

So, I decided to backup the entire system to my other windows 2000 machine over my network. Now I have a 7Gig file over there. It's a .bkf file. The backup is the entire laptop system, which includes 2 partitions, C: and D:

If I reformat the entire harddrive (or buy a new harddrive) and then want to restore it to the same state it was in... Does the repair diskette I created from within the Backup utility prepare the harddrive such that the restore function knows how to recreate the partitions in the restore process? Or, do I need to do a full reinstall of w2k, create both partitions, and then do the restore... and the restore works itself into that and somehow magically restores the system to the previous state?

Ok... more thought ... Something has to be on the laptop system after a reformat to get on the network to get to the backup file. Does the repair disk supply that?

Thanks if you can help out.