emifra,
> As far as I know, Norton Ghost 2003 is the only program that makes a
> "Bootable Recovery CD/DVD"
Actually I used Ghost 9 to create that disk.
Jim
I have ordered another copy off the
> Internet surplus market for $8.95 plus USPS in case I lose my original.
>
> As far as I know all others including Acronis require that you boot from
> the program CD first then load your image Set, and yes they work. I
> have
> always suggested that you can make your own customized Bootable
> Recovery Set and then throw away the OEM set. In actual fact you need
> to keep the OEM set only to have access to the bundled programs and
> drivers you can extract therefrom.in case you need to reload them. With
> most new machines you can make a Bootable Recovery set on one DVD
> but it will take several CDs. It will tell you when to insert
> additional
> DVDs
> or CDs if needed. A recovery takes about ten minutes per GB. Much faster
> than reinstalling Windows and you can include your programs as well.
>
> A Norton 2003 Bootable Recovery DVD will Boot (restart) the PC and
> reload everything that you included in the image when the Set was made.
> After you make these DVDs or CDs you can run an integrity check to
> confirm if they are any good. I don't bother anymore if the completion
> log reports "success". A Norton recovery set usually works better than
> the OEM set and it recovers what you had on your PC and not what the
> OEM thought you should have.
>
> When you use an OEM Bootable Recovery Set, It reloads the PC with
> exactly what was on it the day you brought it home. Very unsatisfactory.
> What happens to all the OEM junk you got rid of and the new stuff you
> added? Junk is back, new stuff is gone.
>
> One should put some junk on a partition, create an image, then recover
> the image, to give himself confidence that it does work.
>
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> Emile
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