Re:Recovery CD

[DrDeath]

Hey guys does anyone know, where or how to create like a bootable recovery CD with something like a ghost image of ur HDD onto a bootable CD so that all you would hav eto do is, put the disk in and it would restore your computer windows included?

[ignorant]

you mean, like having a ghost image of your hard drive on a bootable cd disc?

[USAHACKER]

You'll need the Norton Ghost program, it runs on DOS only, you can download a trial from Symantec web site, you need to have two hard drives or your primary hard drive splitted in at least  two partitions, run ghost and choose "from hard drive to image", from partition one to partition two, if the size of the first partition is smaller than 700MB, you are OK, but if the disc image is larger than that, you'll need to compress the image to fit on a CD, after creating the ghost image, if you have a win9x boot disk edit the autoexec to run the ghost program, or you can type on the command line, have ready the Ghost program and the boot disk then you need to burn it on a CD, make it bootable by choosing the bootable CD from your burning program, if you don't have an image of the boot sector, choose the create from floppy disk, put the disk on the A drive an burn the disc, after is on the CD try it, if possible on a computer that you don't care to erase all the OS (Ghost writes to the hard drive by erasing everything on it and writing the image on the CD), just remember that if the image was made from a partition, you have to choose "from image to disk" and choose partition one (you must have at least two partitions to restore the image).

[Space Between]

If the hdd you have is 700mb or less you should be able to ghost directly from
the hdd image to a cdwriter. I know that GHOST.EXE (2k3) has this option to ghost
directly to cd...so i imagine that is what it means althought ive never tried it.

If you want to try the above method i believe you will need some version of a
ASPI manager for DOS which can be found anywhere...try bart's page. I dont
think that ghost.exe will provide its own ASPI interface for this.

Also something that is handy is to put a FULL version of NTFSPRO and DAO16 in
a boot floppy image of UBD (Ultimate Boot Disk). If i run a floppy image i use
this image today. It supports i believe, with NTFSPRO, 10 different types of
filesystems (so i think anyways).  Either way its handy. DAO16 is a DOS based
cdwriter util found at www.goldenhawk.com.  You could also try cdrecord (although
i think DAO is better in 16bit dos mode).

You might not want to compress your image at any level higher than 2. It's been
awhile since i used ghost with compression but i have tried every compression
level avail...and you DO NOT want the top 2 levels (i think that's 4 and 5).  Ive
tried ghost with this and the decompression off the cd takes forever....long time.
Well put it this way, a bare install "minimal" install HDD image of BSD took ~3min
to ghost back with NO compression. With compression of i think 4 (or second to
highest) it took ~32min.  Why, well it is a 200mhz box. I slept on the ghosting part
so i never knew how long it took to compress the ghost.img. My advice is just to
not use compression at all. It's faster by alot in my experience.