OEM Woes While Installing Windows Components

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Luke Silburn

Hello

Not sure which is the best forum, so I've crossposted to a few - hope
that's allright...

My specific issue is that I'm doing some housekeeping on the office PC I
(Compaq Presario, XP Home) and I'd like to take a backup of the C: drive
before I start any serious monkeying around since if I blow away my
girlfriend's data there will be hell to pay. Problem is that the Backup
Tool I have on my laptop (Win2000 Pro) isn't a default component for XP
Home and, this being a crappy OEM install of XP (not my idea - it was an
insurance claim and the vouchers they gave us were only good at the newb-
skinning heaven that is PC World) I don't have windows media - just a
recovery partition and a couple of recovery disks I've burned. Which I have
already ascertained are useless for anything other than resetting the box
back to its factory state.

I've already had the brush off from HP support about them not supplying
full installation media and I don't fancy another go-round with them (at
8p/minute) unless I absolutely have to.

So... is there another way to get part-of-XP-but-not-installed-as-standard
components or do I have to go back to HP Support making dire noises of 'fit
for purpose' and 'Trading Standards' if they don't cough up some disks?

Regards
Luke
 
sounds to me like you should check out imaging utilities such as Ghost.
they can take a snapshot of the entire partition or even drive, compress it,
and save it as a file.

http://www.norton.com/sabu/ghost/ghost_personal/

most oem's no longer include the actual media in the box anymore. microsoft
makes it very difficult and expensive for OEMs to do that.
 
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