Re: How to do it: 8 HP Rescue Disks to 1 HP Rescue Disk?

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I'm maybe every six months. How did you do the restore DVD? I have the
hidden partition. Actually it's only partially hidden. It shows up as a D
drive, FAT disk. It doesn't give me all the data that's on it. I'm leery
about touching it. But if you can set me onto a site that will explain how I
can do what you did, I'm be really appreciative!


"Bill Sharpe" <wfsnopam@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Steve Turner wrote:
Mark. Thanks for the input but I think I may have been unclear. I would
NOT
want to put a restore partition on floppies! It's ONLY 4.5 GIG large. I'd
be
totally defeating the purpose and may be finished by the day I start
collecting my pension! I'm operating under Windows XP Home SP2. The
restore
disks, which the machine prompted me to make when I FIRST booted it up
when
I got it from the store, amount to 8 CDs, completely full. What I want to
do, if I can, is concatenate all 8 onto one DVD so that I can do a
restore
simply by placing the one DVD into the drive and then walking away, so
it's
totally unattended. The restore partition is a FAT disk some 5GIGs large.
Wow. I don't know HOW many 3 1/2ers it would take to store 4.5 GIG of FAT
HDD. Maybe they don't make that many any more. <grin>



"Mark L. Ferguson" <MarkLFerguson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
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If I can assume you mean '3 1/2 inch floppies' there is a way to do it.
I also assume the first floppy is an MS-Dos boot disk. If all this is
correct, the procedure is not too hard.
Create a MS-Dos bootable DVD with the first disk files included. Create
seven files named 'disk2' (no extension) 'disk3' (and so on...) Put the
other seven file sets, and your seven new files on the DVD, and boot to
it.

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"Steve Turner" <stevezygote@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I have an HP Pavilion with a 2.2 Ghz Cerelon processor, 512 RAM and a
60GIG HDD. It's running an OEM version of Windows XP Home SP2. When I
have to take drastic steps and restore to factory specs I have to plug
in 8 rescue disks. Can't do it unattended either. Is there some way I
could take the 8 disks and burn them to a DVD and do my restore that
way? I'm not trying to pirate the software. I just want to take what I
own (and have a legal right to) and create one DVD that I could do the
restore from, unattended.

Thanks.



Have you already deleted HP's hidden partition? I was able to create one
restore DVD from HP's installed software and then delete the hidden
partition.

However, I've never had to use the restore DVD in 16 months. I wouldn't
see it as a major problem if I had to manually insert eight CD's one after
another for such an infrequent event. And I have now put so much other
software on my machine that I wouldn't want to use the restore DVD at all.
I back up with Acronis True Image to an external hard disk.

Bill


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