Win XP Bootable Cds

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Apologies for the Repost ... original didn't show on my server

I have a PC which came with Windows XP pre-installed - It was supplied with
a set of Rescue Cds which contain a Ghost Image of the original drive.
I would like to make a Bootable CD to access the hard drives for data
recovery in the event of an emergency.
Is it possible to create such discs without a Windows installation CD ?
If so would someone please give me an outline of how it is achievable

Regards and thanks
 
Check here. Depending on the Windows version (home, pro, home sp1, pro sp1)
download and create boot disks.
 
JRB said:
Apologies for the Repost ... original didn't show on my server

I have a PC which came with Windows XP pre-installed - It was supplied with
a set of Rescue Cds which contain a Ghost Image of the original drive.
I would like to make a Bootable CD to access the hard drives for data
recovery in the event of an emergency.
Is it possible to create such discs without a Windows installation CD ?
If so would someone please give me an outline of how it is achievable

Regards and thanks
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1. If the hard drive is using FAT32 then a Windows 98 or Windows Me
boot disk (www.bootdisk.com) will suffice.

2. If the hard drive is NTFS then you need the 6 diskette set (there
is no equivalent bootable CD from Microsoft) from
http://support.microsoft.com?kbid=310994

3. Another option, and one that I have used several times with NTFS
drives, is to boot with a Windows 98 (or Me) startup disk that also
creates a fairly large RAM drive. Then I use the free READNTFS
utility from http://www.ntfs.com/products.htm to locate the files I
need and save them. If there is no other disk drive available I same
them to the RAM drive and then use PKZIP to compress and copy the
files from the RAM drive to 3.5 inch diskettes.

Hope this is of some assistance.

Good luck




Ron Martell Duncan B.C. Canada
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