Re: OS disk recovery software

["Tim Fletcher" <timfletcher@xxxxxxx>]

This is what I did - having reinstalled XP from scratch about 3 times in 6
months.  I formatted the drive and did a clean install followed by all the
applications/settings etc.  Then I restored my data and used Norton Ghost
to snapshot the drive.  I now have a DVD with a clean XP install - now it
only takes a few minutes to format the drive and restore to that point.

I also use Norton Ghost to snapshot the drive before doing anything
potentially dangerous - just in case!

BTW - if you use ghost to restore the drive onto a bigger HDD you run the
risk of the NTLDR not found message - specific and very effective
instructions were posted here about 6 months ago about how to get round
this - check out the archive.

HTH
Tim.


----- Original Message -----
From: Young, Jeff
To: 'ukha_d@xxxxxxx'
Sent: Tuesday, February 03, 2004 9:24 AM
Subject: [ukha_d] OS disk recovery software


Sorry Dean but your post has reminded me to raise a question I'm been
mulling over for a while.  I can't be any help with the lost .pst - good
luck anyway.

I want a way of snap-shotting my boot disk ( win xp ) together with all app
data, user files, registry etc.  WHEN my hard drive fails AGAIN I will
simply restore this image onto the replacement drive.  The replacement
drive
may be larger than the failed drive.  I kind of see it working like the
toshiba default install cds that came with the laptop.



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