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| Hi all,
I have the following needs for my backup:
I have a 200gb HD in my LAN with 2 Windows XP Prof clients and want to
once in a while be able to do a complete backup of them. I have a usb
drive as well and a usb thumbdrive.
I don't want to use any diskette to restore a backup - Windows XP
requires a diskette to store system info - instead I would like to
just use a thumbdrive or the usb drive to restore the system from the
harddrive.
is there any software that allows this?
tia
anders.
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"Those are my principles. If you don't like them I have others."
Groucho Marx.
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| Curious George 2005-01-10, 7:45 am |
| On Sat, 08 Jan 2005 19:09:19 +0800, ajk <gandalf<at>pc.nu> wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>I have the following needs for my backup:
>
>I have a 200gb HD in my LAN with 2 Windows XP Prof clients and want to
>once in a while be able to do a complete backup of them. I have a usb
>drive as well and a usb thumbdrive.
>
>I don't want to use any diskette to restore a backup - Windows XP
>requires a diskette to store system info - instead I would like to
>just use a thumbdrive or the usb drive to restore the system from the
>harddrive.
>
>is there any software that allows this?
>
>tia
>anders.
If your computer can boot off of USB, you could get any disk image
type backup software (True Image, Ghost, Drive Image) to do a bare
metal restore from the pen drive & accessing the images on the usb
hdd.
If the computer is older and does not support booting off USB you have
to master a CD or DVD that will boot & run the recovery software.
Either should be very simple to quick to do.
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| Please tell me, if it's very simple and quick to do, just how, in easy
steps, can I make a cd bootable. My Nero software at first seems simple and
it ways to copy an iso file to the dvd or cd, but there appears no way short
of being a software engineer I've ever found to creat an iso file. Is there
really an easy way?
Thanks,
Nat
Curious George wrote:
> On Sat, 08 Jan 2005 19:09:19 +0800, ajk <gandalf<at>pc.nu> wrote:
...snip..
> If the computer is older and does not support booting off USB you have
> to master a CD or DVD that will boot & run the recovery software.
> Either should be very simple to quick to do.
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| Curious George 2005-02-07, 2:45 am |
| On Mon, 31 Jan 2005 07:48:13 GMT, "Nat" <nat@alias.org> wrote:
>Please tell me, if it's very simple and quick to do, just how, in easy
>steps, can I make a cd bootable. My Nero software at first seems simple and
>it ways to copy an iso file to the dvd or cd, but there appears no way short
>of being a software engineer I've ever found to creat an iso file. Is there
>really an easy way?
>
>Thanks,
>Nat
It is not very complicated but there is no 1 way to do it because
there are multiple OS's you could boot into & multiple bootable
sources you could transfer to CD. The basic premise is to extract the
bootable code to an image file and have a program like Nero use it
when mastering & writing a bootable CD. Most things you could think
of have probably already been done & there is likely a site that could
walk you through the process & let you know the best parameters to put
in you mastering SW for any specific project.
A good overview of the process:
http://www.nu2.nu/bootablecd/
also:
http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/
http://www.buildorbuy.org/bootcd.html
http://support.microsoft.com/defaul...&NoWebContent=1
http://www.bootdisk.com/
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| Curious George wrote:
> On Mon, 31 Jan 2005 07:48:13 GMT, "Nat" <nat@alias.org> wrote:
>
>
>
> It is not very complicated but there is no 1 way to do it because
> there are multiple OS's you could boot into & multiple bootable
> sources you could transfer to CD. The basic premise is to extract the
> bootable code to an image file and have a program like Nero use it
> when mastering & writing a bootable CD. Most things you could think
> of have probably already been done & there is likely a site that could
> walk you through the process & let you know the best parameters to put
> in you mastering SW for any specific project.
>
> A good overview of the process:
> http://www.nu2.nu/bootablecd/
>
> also:
> http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/
> http://www.buildorbuy.org/bootcd.html
> http://support.microsoft.com/defaul...&NoWebContent=1
> http://www.bootdisk.com/
George, Thanks so very much. I'll check them all out. I appreciate your
response.
Nat
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