System restore

[mbritton2]

I am building a system and was wondering when I am all done installing everything that I want can i make a syster restore disk so if something happened I could restore it with one disk insted of using all the software disks that I had to at first

[John Prophet]

yep..you can use the excellent Norton Ghost to make a restore disk..although it may end up being several disks.

you just install norton on a computer...any computer not necesarily the one you are making the restore disk for...then you make the norton boot floppy....

then when you are ready..you boot from the floppy and you choose "disk to image" and you choose the cd burner as the destination for the image.

it will ask if you want to put a floppy image on the restore disk as well so if you want you can just put the ghost boot floppy on there and that way it will be a bootable restore disk.

I have a certain batch file I use that a friend made...it asks if you want to restore th eimage and you just click 'y" and then type "agree".....but you can also just put the ghost boot floppy on there and when it boots to it you just go "restore from image" and choose the image which is stored on the cd's.

JP