Running PC diagnostics using a netbook?

[gibsonfirebird12]

Forgive me if this is an epically n00b question,

but I read online that netbooks have been being used by techs for doing diagnostics on other computers because of their portability.

Anyone know anything about this

 

[hang-the-9]

You can use it to test drives in external enclosures, run telnet sessions, network testing. You can't actually do any hardware diagnostics on another computer, you need a boot disk for that.

 

[gibsonfirebird12]

You can use it to test drives in external enclosures, run telnet sessions, network testing. You can't actually do any hardware diagnostics on another computer, you need a boot disk for that.

Gotcha, that's what I thought. Just thought I'd check anyways. Thanks!

 

[gibsonfirebird12]

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