How To Create A Restore CD?

[holyghost]

How can I make a restore cd like the ones provided by branded computer makers. I am tired of keep reinstalling my windows each time I format my hdd whenever my system crashed. Anyone can show me how to create one?

 

[BlueWeasel]

You could make a ghost backup of your partition, and burn it and the ghost executable to a CD. Make the CD bootable and that's a quick, easy way to do what you are asking.

You would still have to do the restore manually, but it would take maybe 5-10 mins.

There may be other software to do exactly what you are looking for, but I have only used Norton Ghost....

 

[MedicBob]

See your other post.🙂

 

[Softballslug]

Build the computer as normal.
Install operating system and drivers.
Tweak the system to your hearts content.

Once the system is stable, use Norton Ghost to create an image. I install a second hard drive for this purpose, so I can do disk to image.
take the hard drive out and copy the image to the computer that will be creating the disk.

Create a Ghost bootable floppy disk and then add this as the autoexec.bat file:
a:\MSCDEX.EXE /D:MTMIDE01 /M:10
a:\mouse.com
a:\ghostpe.exe -clone,MODE=load,src=d:\restore.gho,dst=1,sze1=100P -auto -quiet -rb

This assumes you have mscdex (cd driver), mouse.com, and ghostepe.exe on the floppy. The image file named restore.gho will be put on the CD Rom.

Inside your burning software there will be an option to create a bootable disk. Use the newly created floppy for the boot image and then move restore.gho (disk Image)
onto the compilation and burn. The cd is now bootable and will load ghost and start the restore of the image (restore.gho) to the hard drive.