Recovery Disk

[Guest]

I apologize for the truncated earlier post. I hit the wrong button. I have
WinXP that I installed from an upgrade CD and then I updated with SP2 and I
have that CD. I think I missed a step somewhere about creating a recovery
disk. I would like to create a bootable recovery disk for recovering my
system if I should ever need to. Appreciate any advice that is helpful

thx

 

[Malke]

I apologize for the truncated earlier post. I hit the wrong button. I have
WinXP that I installed from an upgrade CD and then I updated with SP2 and I
have that CD. I think I missed a step somewhere about creating a recovery
disk. I would like to create a bootable recovery disk for recovering my
system if I should ever need to. Appreciate any advice that is helpful

thx

Look into getting Acronis True Image. You can create a drive image and
also do incremental backups with it. You will want to save the images on
a second hard drive. An external one works well.


Malke

 

[Guest]

So there is no equivalent to the old 6 floppy disc recovery disks?

Thanks

 

[Malke]

So there is no equivalent to the old 6 floppy disc recovery disks?

You can use the floppy disk recovery method with XP but that will only
help you reinstall the operating system. It won't recover your entire
computer to where it was (complete with programs and data if desired)
which is what I thought you wanted to know.

Perhaps this is what you were looking for:
http://www.windowsnetworking.com/articles_tutorials/wxppasr.html


Malke

 

[frodo]

So there is no equivalent to the old 6 floppy disc recovery disks?

those weren't really "recovery disks", they were a set of BOOTABLE
floppies that would allow you to run the XP Setup CD from a machine that
wouldn't boot otherwise.

for a simple, Bootable, diagnostics-type CD, look to the Ultimate Boot CD
for Windows (google for it; UBCD4Win). With it you can boot up and
examine the failing system, and maybe fix it; it includes many diag tools
and malware scanners.

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True Image will make an actual single-file backup of YOUR system, as it
exists when the image is made (all installed programs, all docs, all
registry entries - everything). It's the single best solution for making
a "Restore Set" of your primary boot partition. For a system w/ many
partitions, or w/ a special setup (raid etc), it gets a tad more
complicated, but it is still a great solution. Another popular prorgram
is Norton Ghost, tho it's a tad long in the tooth these days...