Recovery Media Creator

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In newsOKFtCELFHA.3928@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl,
W. Guy Delaney <guyd@verizon.net> had this to say:

My reply is at the bottom of your sent message:

> I am reformatting my hard drive and reinstalling all of my software.
> Is there a way for me to make Recovery Disks so that the next time
> this needs to be done, I can simply restore my system to a new state
> without having to reload my operating system and applications from
> their original disks. I have heard of ":Recovery Media Creator" but
> can't find it on the internet, and even if I could, I'm no sure this
> is what I need. Can anyone give me some help?

The easiest way to do this is to use two drives and use the second one as a
clone of the first. Expensive? Not really, hard drives are very inexpensive
these days. Effective? Well, I do a complete clone every few days (multiple
disks though and I keep backups for a number of weeks depending but I use
large disks and lots of partitions to do this and it's a bit more complex)
but it's not hard. In fact you can do it for free if you have a second hard
drive:

http://www.pcinspector.de/clone-maxx/uk/welcome.htm

Note: I use Norton Ghost (the only Norton Product I use) for this but I have
it on good authority that this is just as easy to work with and just as
effective. Some claim it's faster but I'm stuck in my routine so I stick
with Norton.

Galen
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Rest well Alex and we'll see you on the other side.