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I want to use the windows backup program to be able to "reinstall"
my computer to a known state. Basically, instead of every time
installing, applying patches, and reinstalling apps, I want to save
the current situation of my computer and to be able to get back to
this situation in future. I am a bit unsure how I should use the
backup utility as I currently have my system on D but all the boot
files are on C, i.e. boot.ini and config.sys and autoexec.bat are
on C. In dos terms C is my primary partiotion, and D is my extended
partition. However, because my extended partition was created by
win2000 setup, D is not a bootable partition, only C is bootable.
With that in mind, I am able to make a backup, but how would I
do a restore? I assume I cannot restore D while using D, or else
many files might be locked, and if I restore to C, then my boot.ini
will not know that the system has moved from D to C, and will only
offer to boot D. Any ideas?
my computer to a known state. Basically, instead of every time
installing, applying patches, and reinstalling apps, I want to save
the current situation of my computer and to be able to get back to
this situation in future. I am a bit unsure how I should use the
backup utility as I currently have my system on D but all the boot
files are on C, i.e. boot.ini and config.sys and autoexec.bat are
on C. In dos terms C is my primary partiotion, and D is my extended
partition. However, because my extended partition was created by
win2000 setup, D is not a bootable partition, only C is bootable.
With that in mind, I am able to make a backup, but how would I
do a restore? I assume I cannot restore D while using D, or else
many files might be locked, and if I restore to C, then my boot.ini
will not know that the system has moved from D to C, and will only
offer to boot D. Any ideas?