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Making a system recovery disk
Name: xtr33boy Date: June 29, 2004 at 02:33:10 Pacific OS: xp professional CPU/Ram: 2ghz 224mb
Comment:
I will be getting a laptop soon with a dvd burner and I was wondering if there was a way I could take an exact image of my hard drive and copy it onto a dvd so that when I want to reformat my hard drive, all I have to do is pop in a dvd and all my programs will already be loaded on and all my settings would be the same. am I just dreaming or can this be done?
Name: fallenint Date: June 29, 2004 at 02:38:59 Pacific
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On Windows Xp: Start > All Programs > Accessories > System Tools > Backup - I think this is what you mean if you select the third option down i think it is it will back up all your settings and everything. I havent tryed it myself but it looks like it would work.
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Response Number 2
Name: fallenint Date: June 29, 2004 at 02:40:55 Pacific
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Sorry I didnt read crefully enough. What I posted above will back up all your settings/documents but I dont think it will back up your programs also I dont think you can use a dvd with it..
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Response Number 3
Name: Richard59 Date: June 29, 2004 at 02:58:11 Pacific
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I've only ever cloned an operating system partition from one harddrive to another. Don't know whether it would work to a DVD disk. I doubt the common cloning programs would contain the necessary DVD burning drivers. I've only used Norton Ghost and it runs from a bootdisk. No burning drivers. only copies image to harddrive.
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Response Number 4
Name: XpUser Date: June 29, 2004 at 03:28:31 Pacific
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If you have DVD burner, the only versions of Ghost capable of saving directly to or restoring from DVD are:
Name: jimbob Date: June 29, 2004 at 05:14:40 Pacific
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The other thing is if you use Norton Ghost and burn to CD's it will span multiple CD's and the first will hold the boot files for reinstalling your image.
JIM
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Response Number 6
Name: mosaddique Date: June 29, 2004 at 05:19:22 Pacific
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