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How do I use an *.iso recovery file?
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| Ajax Jones 2006-05-21, 7:12 pm |
| Friends, I've been using Retrospect for daily backups. It also offers to
create an emergency recovery cd. When I run that routine it extracts files
from my win xp installation cd and takes a snapshot of my hard disk and
gathers some Retrospect files and writes them in an *.iso file on my hard
drive which I am then instructed to copy to my cd to create a bootable
recovery cd..
What good does this iso file do? As far as I can see I can't boot from it. I
suspect I'm supposed to use some other program to extract the iso contents
to the cd and thereby create my recovery cd. Can you help me make sense of
this?
I see programs offered here and there to deal with iso files. But, it seems
odd to have to buy something to unpack a file that I didn't need to be
packed to begin with.
Any comments appreciated!
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Bob Boudewyns
Boudewyns@Gmail.com
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| Gerard Bok 2006-05-21, 7:12 pm |
| On Sun, 21 May 2006 20:15:04 GMT, "Ajax Jones" <Ajax@jones.net>
wrote:
>Friends, I've been using Retrospect for daily backups. It also offers to
>create an emergency recovery cd. When I run that routine it extracts files
>from my win xp installation cd and takes a snapshot of my hard disk and
>gathers some Retrospect files and writes them in an *.iso file on my hard
>drive which I am then instructed to copy to my cd to create a bootable
>recovery cd..
..iso is a disk image of a CD.
You need a CD writer, and the software that came with it.
Any CD writing software is capable of burning the .iso file onto
a CDR. That's your recovery CD :-)
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Kind regards,
Gerard Bok
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| Howard Kaikow 2006-05-21, 7:12 pm |
| Take a look at the Retrospect manual.
It tells you what to do.
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http://www.standards.com/; See Howard Kaikow's web site.
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