Re: Creating a backup restore CD not floppy


"Tania" <Tania@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I have repair and restore disks which came with my out of date computer
quite
a long time ago. I updated to SP2 online, the OEM disks if used for
repair
or recovery revert OS to SP1, which as of October this year will not be
supported. Once this happens now that Genuine Advantage Notifacations
which
is installed and remains if a repair and not a recovery is done no longer
has
the tools needed to verify software causing a Notification and blockage
from
Updates to SP2 and a whole mess of other problems. The only thing that
can
be done is a restore to factory specs whereafter there are endless hours
of
configuring, downloading and uploading, installations, setup, etc. As of
October of this year I believe if I ever do a repair or recovery with the
Oem
disks I will be stuck with unsupported SP1. I would like to avoid this as
well as the work described above by creating my own restore disk on
CD-Rom.
I know there is a utility for restore disks in NT but as far as I know it
requires bootable floppies and this laptop has CD/DVD only. I can do
regular
backup on a CD-R I believe of personal files and settings. I would like
advice as to whether I can create a bootable CD and use it to create a
restore solution in the future if I have a system failure which causes my
current OS not to boot fully which has happened to me once again. I'm not
an
advanced user but am familiar with XP interface. I do not know if what I
want to do is possible, but if anyone does know how or can provide advice
or
a place to start I would be truly grateful.

A third party program such as Norton Ghost or BootITNG will do what
you want, Norton is the easiest IMHO, it will allow you to create an
image of your current HDD and write it to bootable DVDs [providing your
writer is supported by Ghost].
I believe they have a list of supported optical drives on the
Symantec web site.

rgds
Roberto



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