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Title: Make a recovery CD
Post by: Antonio on October 08, 2002, 05:56:36 PM

I want to make a recovery cd, that include winXP pro, Office, and whatever software i want.
Has to be fully automatic.
Please help.

Antonio

Title: Make a recovery CD
Post by: oakfan52 on October 09, 2002, 12:47:47 AM

Use Norton Ghost to make a bootable image across as many CD\'s as you need to do a backup of your system as it currectly stands. Norton 2002 or 2003 should be used if you are running windows XP. All you should have to do if you wanna restore is put the first CD in and boot off it. A lot of Retail computers such as E-machine use ghost for thier recovery system.

Title: Make a recovery CD
Post by: Antonio on October 11, 2002, 05:32:29 AM

Thanks...
Here\'s how i did it:
made a bootable floppy

in config sys:
FILES=30
BUFFERS=20

DEVICE=cd1.SYS /D:banana
LASTDRIVE=Z


in autoexec.bat:

@echo off

MSCDEX.EXE  /D:banana /L:R
cls

Echo Recovery CD

echo.
echo 1   Start Recovery
echo 2   Exit
echo.

choice /c:1,2 Valg
if errorlevel 2 goto ut
if errorlevel 1 goto start

:start
ghost.exe -clone,mode=prestore,src=r:CD1.GHO:1,dst=1:1  -sure -rb (the ghost switch must be in one line)
goto end

:ut
echo Take out the CD......
pause
warmboot.com
goto end

:end

Made an image of the computer called cd1.gho
started nero choosed bootable cd-rom
used the floppy as boot image and copied the ghost image in the new cd.
VOILA....automatic recovery cd../ohmy.gif\' class=\'bbc_emoticon\' alt=\':o\' />))

Files in bootable floppy:
Autoexec.bat
cd1.sys
Choice.exe
command.com
gonfig.sys
ghost.exe
io.sys
mscdex.exe
msdos.sys
sys.com
warmboot.com