Hi:

Bought a nice and cheap Aspire 3680, but it has no DVD burner (maybe that
was stupid of me).  It has this backup feature that dynamically (and
slowly) repartitions the hard drive to make room on the hidden backup
partition.  This is threatening to take over the hard drive.

I need recommendations as to how to get a good image of the hard drive,
without destroying all of the hidden drive.  With another machine,
installing Acronis TrueImage clobbered the factory reset partition, and I'd
like to keep that on this Aspire 3680.

Thanks in advance for your recommendations!