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When I had my present system made, I paid them an extra $30 to make me
a Bootable Restoration CD. The one they made works sort of like the
ones I use to get with my Gateway Computers back when I use to buy
Gateway computers, i.e. it restored my computer back to the way it was
the day I got it after formatting and fdisking. One difference in
this Bootable Restoration CD is that it does not need you to insert
the OS CD during the restoration process. It all seems to be on the
Restoration CD and the good part is, when doing a restoration with it,
I don’t have to jump through M$’s stupid hurdles to activate the
stupid OS AGAIN and AGAIN and AGAIN. The reason I am told is that
they made the Bootable Restoration CD for my system after the OS was
activated with M$.
I asked what software they used to make the Bootable Restoration CD so
I might get a copy so I could make my own. It would be nice to keep
Restoration CD’s current as the system evolves with added software,
drivers and toys. They said the software cost thousands so if I
wanted to keep up-to-date Restoration CD’s as my system grew and
evolved, I would have to pay them $30 per pop each time.
Are they telling me the truth or can I make my own Bootable
Restoration CD’s with something like Ghost? I know that Ghost makes
an image of what you got but can that image be put on a Bootable CD
that will take care of everything needed to do a clean format, Fdisk
and installation of all that was there before and whatever else is
needed to do a complete restoration on a NTFS system.
If not, who makes such software…
Regards,
T
When I had my present system made, I paid them an extra $30 to make me
a Bootable Restoration CD. The one they made works sort of like the
ones I use to get with my Gateway Computers back when I use to buy
Gateway computers, i.e. it restored my computer back to the way it was
the day I got it after formatting and fdisking. One difference in
this Bootable Restoration CD is that it does not need you to insert
the OS CD during the restoration process. It all seems to be on the
Restoration CD and the good part is, when doing a restoration with it,
I don’t have to jump through M$’s stupid hurdles to activate the
stupid OS AGAIN and AGAIN and AGAIN. The reason I am told is that
they made the Bootable Restoration CD for my system after the OS was
activated with M$.
I asked what software they used to make the Bootable Restoration CD so
I might get a copy so I could make my own. It would be nice to keep
Restoration CD’s current as the system evolves with added software,
drivers and toys. They said the software cost thousands so if I
wanted to keep up-to-date Restoration CD’s as my system grew and
evolved, I would have to pay them $30 per pop each time.
Are they telling me the truth or can I make my own Bootable
Restoration CD’s with something like Ghost? I know that Ghost makes
an image of what you got but can that image be put on a Bootable CD
that will take care of everything needed to do a clean format, Fdisk
and installation of all that was there before and whatever else is
needed to do a complete restoration on a NTFS system.
If not, who makes such software…
Regards,
T