My Toshiba A45-S250, after having its system fan and system board replaced, is mostly working.

No BSoDs yet, knock wood. I had to take the battery out to get it to power on, otherwise it would just sit there with the AC power LED blinking orange. Hopefully, that’s just because the battery is very dead and needs a few hours of charging. Powered right up once I removed the battery but my Windows XP installation was really hosed, probably from all of the BSoDs before it was worked on. Solved most of the problems by doing Repair Icons in TweakUIXP and doing a full CHKDSK and rebooting. I have it connected to the network via Ethernet, but it seems to not recognize the Atheros built-in 802.11g wireless, even after installing drivers from the Toshiba web site. I might just copy all of my data over to my desktop and wipe the laptop clean with a brand new install of XP. I hate doing that kind of stuff, but it might be the best thing to do to insure stability. Maybe I’ll partition the drive and have a small Linux installation along with XP. One thing I definitely want to do is get a good disk imaging program and image the sucker once I get a good base install of Windows XP SP2, PuTTY, Firefox, Thunderbird, etc… (see my Windows essential software page)

Anybody want to recommend an imaging program? Ghost? Acronis True Image? Cygwin “dd”?