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Name: Billy06.1
Date: January 10, 2006 at 16:34:19 Pacific
OS: Windows XP Home (Latest V
CPU/Ram: Pentium 4
Comment:

Ive had my new computer for about a month. But, ive either lost my OS backup disc or there wasnt one to begin with in the box. How can i create one?



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Response Number 1
Name: Badboy
Date: January 10, 2006 at 16:43:38 Pacific
Reply:

Get Norton Ghost and make an image on DVD(s).


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Name: per
Date: January 10, 2006 at 16:59:36 Pacific
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Borrow an xp cd and copy it. A copy on a dvd from the active O/S won't boot and install the O/S.

http://computervitals.com/


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Response Number 3
Name: Badboy
Date: January 10, 2006 at 17:04:48 Pacific
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Ghost will make a bootable DVD or DVD set that will write an EXACT copy of your partition back on the drive if you need to.


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Response Number 4
Name: name
Date: January 10, 2006 at 17:45:06 Pacific
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Ghost is a great idea, but's it's pretty darn handy to have a whinedoz reinstallating disk.

If you can't do anything else, see if there is an \I386 folder on your hard drive, and copy (burn) that to a Cd


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Response Number 5
Name: per
Date: January 10, 2006 at 18:08:19 Pacific
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Agreed it will make a bootable copy of the existing O/S but you may need to do a system repair or a reinstall at some future date.

http://computervitals.com/


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Response Number 6
Name: cnf
Date: January 12, 2006 at 07:58:46 Pacific
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I still vote for Acronis:
http://www.computing.net/windowsxp/wwwboard/forum/146457.html
I guess the best way is to create bootable media (CD or DVD) and save system partition image (also on DVDs or CDs or on your HDD).


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Response Number 7
Name: Badboy
Date: January 12, 2006 at 08:41:01 Pacific
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I tried Acronis True Image a couple of months ago (version 9) and on the first attempt to restore, it bombed. The C: partition became free space and I had to remove the drive, put it in a USB caddy, and create a new C: partition using WINXP on another computer. I was then able to use Ghost to reimage the partition. This made me hinky about using True Image any more.


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Response Number 8
Name: cnf
Date: January 13, 2006 at 00:51:14 Pacific
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Hm.. very strange
I heard about some difficulties with 9 version but personally I upgraded successfully and haven't had problems.. Anyway IMHO TI8 was one of the best imaging solutions ever exist. TI9 becomes basically a backup and imaging solution now rather than an imaging solution alone.


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Response Number 9
Name: Badboy
Date: January 13, 2006 at 05:59:42 Pacific
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I spoke with Acronis and they will send version 10. They wouldn't send me version 8.


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