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- Jun 5, 2006
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- Edmonton Canada
Hey people, I wonder if there are any tech savvy folks who can help me.
My hard drive started making noise a couple of weeks ago and I knew it was on its last legs so I made a drive image using Drive Image XML so that when the hard drive DID go I could get my puter back up and running with all the sytem updates, preferences, programs (and casinos) whenever I got a new internal hard drive. I backed up the drive image on my external HD, everything's cool there. My hard drive did go and I just got my new internal drive and reinstalled windows from my restore DVD, so that's cool too.
BUT - I need to create a bootable CD with the Drive Image XML plugin so that I can boot from the CD, access my backed up XML file, and replace the current system with the disk image I saved. Here's my problem, the OS (Win XP Media Center edition) came preinstalled on my computer so it's an OEM version, you can't create a boot CD from it. You CAN however, creat a boot FLOPPY. But I don't have a floppy drive!
I've been all over the internet and found several bootable CD things but I need to be able to include this Drive Image plugin also or I won't be able to restore the system. I just spent an hour on chat to an HP support person but it all boils down to what I said above - it just took longer....
I tried using BartPE to make a bootable CD with the plugin, but unfortunately it didn't work - I'm assuming because of the OEM version of the OS. Anyone have any ideas? If you do, please PM me, thanks!!!!
My hard drive started making noise a couple of weeks ago and I knew it was on its last legs so I made a drive image using Drive Image XML so that when the hard drive DID go I could get my puter back up and running with all the sytem updates, preferences, programs (and casinos) whenever I got a new internal hard drive. I backed up the drive image on my external HD, everything's cool there. My hard drive did go and I just got my new internal drive and reinstalled windows from my restore DVD, so that's cool too.
BUT - I need to create a bootable CD with the Drive Image XML plugin so that I can boot from the CD, access my backed up XML file, and replace the current system with the disk image I saved. Here's my problem, the OS (Win XP Media Center edition) came preinstalled on my computer so it's an OEM version, you can't create a boot CD from it. You CAN however, creat a boot FLOPPY. But I don't have a floppy drive!
I've been all over the internet and found several bootable CD things but I need to be able to include this Drive Image plugin also or I won't be able to restore the system. I just spent an hour on chat to an HP support person but it all boils down to what I said above - it just took longer....
I tried using BartPE to make a bootable CD with the plugin, but unfortunately it didn't work - I'm assuming because of the OEM version of the OS. Anyone have any ideas? If you do, please PM me, thanks!!!!