Hello to the group,

I have been trying to create a bootable cd/dvd (probably DVD or several)
that I can image my current HDD and in the event of a failure I put disk "1"
in turn on the system and it boots up, formats the drive and reloads
everything as it was so I effectively would not be able to tell the
difference. Currently I'm running Windows 2000 pro on a 3.2 GHz Intel with 1
g of ram. It also has a CDRW and also a DVDRW, floppy.
I have looked at several backup software packages (power quest drive image,
and ghost) and the reason I was looking at PQDI was I just rebuilt an old
Compaq laptop and the Restore CD had this type of configuration. I imagine
there will have to be some type of scripts to get it to format and partition
the drive but I really don't know. So I'm fielding the question to the
group.

Thanks in advance
John Bennett
john2459@netzero.net

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On Wed, 7 Jul 2004 18:38:34 -0700, john <john2459@netzero.net> wrote:

> Hello to the group,
>
> I have been trying to create a bootable cd/dvd (probably DVD or several)
> that I can image my current HDD and in the event of a failure I put disk "
1"
> in turn on the system and it boots up, formats the drive and reloads
> everything as it was so I effectively would not be able to tell the
> difference. Currently I'm running Windows 2000 pro on a 3.2 GHz Intel with
 1
> g of ram. It also has a CDRW and also a DVDRW, floppy.
> I have looked at several backup software packages (power quest drive image
,
> and ghost) and the reason I was looking at PQDI was I just rebuilt an old
> Compaq laptop and the Restore CD had this type of configuration. I imagine
> there will have to be some type of scripts to get it to format and partiti
on
> the drive but I really don't know. So I'm fielding the question to the
> group.

Ghost will do this I believe, but it wont't make the image while in windows.
  Drive image is a possibitlity.


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Hi John,
Look at Retrospect 6.5 and their Disaster Recovery Image capability.
http://www.dantz.com/
George
"john" <john2459@netzero.net> wrote in message
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> Hello to the group,
>
> I have been trying to create a bootable cd/dvd (probably DVD or several)
> that I can image my current HDD and in the event of a failure I put disk
> "1"
> in turn on the system and it boots up, formats the drive and reloads
> everything as it was so I effectively would not be able to tell the
> difference. Currently I'm running Windows 2000 pro on a 3.2 GHz Intel with
> 1
> g of ram. It also has a CDRW and also a DVDRW, floppy.
> I have looked at several backup software packages (power quest drive
> image,
> and ghost) and the reason I was looking at PQDI was I just rebuilt an old
> Compaq laptop and the Restore CD had this type of configuration. I imagine
> there will have to be some type of scripts to get it to format and
> partition
> the drive but I really don't know. So I'm fielding the question to the
> group.
>
> Thanks in advance
> John Bennett
> john2459@netzero.net
>
>

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