hidden (restore) partition for xp?

[jmebonner]

I'm building a computer for a guy at work, but he lives 150 miles from me. So, I'd like to back up windows and the drivers onto a hidden partition accessible w/ a floppy. This could save me a big headache when it bombs. Anyone have any idea about how to do this?


Here's a rough idea of what I want, as John Prophet told me.

I guess you could also be a little more techy and do stuff sorta like compaq and make a hidden partition with the restore image on it..then maybe have a floppy to access the partition and they would probably come to a cursor where they needed to type in "restore" and enter to kick it off.

anyone?

[billniceguy]

when it bombs? What? Maybe a small second hard drive as d and slave with stuff u want on it

[NDC]

Or you can use TweakUI for XP to hide that drive partition. That's what I do... I keep my ghost images there. Of course I also have them backed up on a hard disk I leave diconnected...