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Raw & Post Processing, Printing => Printing: Printers, Papers and Inks => Topic started by: sm906 on January 17, 2011, 03:12:51 am

Title: How to back up the HP Zx100 internal harddrive
Post by: sm906 on January 17, 2011, 03:12:51 am

Hi,

based on a previous thread on a problem with an HP Designjet Z2100 firmware problem I came back to my intention to make a backup of the internal harddrive of my own Z2100 before it may die some day. Though my printer has gone through a service cycle about 4 months ago with the replacment of the carriage belt amongst others, the harddrive is still the same.

Principally it should be fairly easy to replace the damaged harddrive by a new one. Has anyone of you Zx100 users already done a harddrive backup? If so, how did you do it? At least Jetdirect, which might be an option, does not run standalone on a Windows 7 64bit Ultimate, in my case.

Thomas

Title: Re: How to back up the HP Zx100 internal harddrive
Post by: John.Murray on January 17, 2011, 03:27:16 pm

The only way to do a backup, would be to pull it and perform an image based backup to another drive.  An excellant utility for performing this is g4u, which does nothing but perform a sector/sector copy.

http://www.feyrer.de/g4u/

Title: Re: How to back up the HP Zx100 internal harddrive
Post by: sm906 on January 18, 2011, 03:33:44 am

John,

thank you for the reply. That is the (so far) only option that came to my mind. But I was hoping there might be a more elegant way with the HD installed in the printer.

Did you do already do such a backup with the printers HD?

Thomas