How to create a recovery DVD from service partition?

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Hi,

My service partition is wrecked, but the files are intact. I am wondering
how one can make a recovery DVD from the recovery files, which could be
accessed originally from F11.

Thanks,

miles
 
milestone said:
Hi,

My service partition is wrecked, but the files are intact. I am wondering
how one can make a recovery DVD from the recovery files, which could be
accessed originally from F11.

Thanks,

miles
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You'll have to ask the manufacturor of that partiular PC.
 
I have IBM Thinkpad T23. IBM said they no longer sold recovery CD's on Win2K
and I had to send my laptop to them.
It's not possible for me to do that now. So I am wondering whether there's
any script or something like that to create CD/DVD or restore the service
partition so that F11 will work again.

Thanks.
 
If you have (or can get hold of) a windows 98 boot disk then one option
(unless someone can provide a better way) is create a bootable CD/DVD using
the 98 Boot image. Use the files off the recovery partition to put on the
CD. You must have the XP install files under the directory I386. This way to
install from scratch you can boot the CD (it provides floppy boot emulation
and CD drivers). then you can run i386\winnt to re-install.

Look on the net for creating XP bootable CD's - I tried this but the CD
wouldn't boot (I can boot using 98 then access the I386 directory).
 
Note the genuine Boot disk has several drivers for CD ROMS. I just created a
boot disk, added the DOS CD ROM driver and MSCDEX, edited config.sys and
autoexec.bat for the one dos driver. It'l pay to remove the RAM disk driver
too unless you can change it's drive letter away from c: (Windows/DOS will
not find any NTFS partitions hence the RAM drive being C:).
 
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