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Hugh Willmer

Hi im going to reformat my hard drive and reload windows xp ,my question is
my boys just brought a pc and the hard drives been partitioned and has a
recovery program so if the original gets corrupted he can restore without
the disks does anyone know of any good programs to do this with ta.
 
Only major OEM computer manufacturers can offer a
method of placing a Windows XP recovery partition
on a computer. For your needs, you may wish to consider
using a program such as Norton Ghost.

Norton Ghost v10.0
http://www.symantec.com/home_homeoffice/products/backup_recovery/ghost10/features.html

Animated Shockwave Ghost tutorial with sound
http://www.symantec.com/techsupp/tutorial/ghost_2002/2001032917165825_s.html

How to perform a disk-to-disk clone
http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPORT/ghost.nsf/pfdocs/2001032917165825

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| Hi im going to reformat my hard drive and reload windows xp ,my question is
| my boys just brought a pc and the hard drives been partitioned and has a
| recovery program so if the original gets corrupted he can restore without
| the disks does anyone know of any good programs to do this with ta.
 
Hugh said:
thank for the quick reply pity it cant be done though seems a good idea
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Not if that drive with the recovery partition dies. Then what do you
do? You always need an installation CD and disks with the drivers. One
should never buy a system that doesn't come with that. And a recovery
partition will not do repairs. Most will only do a reformat and install
to the state it was in when the system was purchased. You loose all
your data and installed programs. Too often someone posts here with a
problem that could be fixed by a repair install or some action using the
recovery console that is only available using the installation CD, but
all they have is the recovery CD or recovery partition.

As Carey said the better option is to use a disk imaging program and
save a disk image to external media such as a USB drive or DVD. This
will capture a an image of the system as it exists with all the changes
you made, not just the image as received from the factory. The drive
can also be cloned to another drive and this kept as a fast way to
restore the system if the original drive dies.
 
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