creating recovery CD's

OK Folks...

Anybody know how to make make recovery CD's of your computer system, including installed applications, computer settings, service packs and installed drivers.

Anybody got any ideas?


Dave

 

RECOVERY CD,S

Do you mean a system backup cd to allow you to recover from a crash?I myself use winrescue xp which not only allows four seperate backups within the program ( these are floppy disk initiated) as well as a floppy restart disk will also let you make innumerable backups to cd which are dated.I used the 98 version quite often and it got me out of trouble a good few times.Have a look at http://superwin.com/rescuexp.htm

 

You could use PowerQuest Drive Image to create an image of your Win XP partition.

 

I used Drive Image 2002. I create the image files (.pqi extension) to a dedicated partition. I have two sets of files on the drive. One in case the most recent is a bit shady. I sometimes burn those files to CD. If necessary, I boot the computer from floppy and execute the CDs.

To make smaller files, I have three partitions: OS/Programs, DATA, and Drive Image files. I'm running XP. The first two partitions are NTFS and the Drive Image Partition is FAT 32.

You can get Drive Image 2002 for about $26 here:

http://ebargainsoftware.com/driveimage.html