If the hardware on the new machine is different from the hardware on the machine from which the XP Backup was made, won't this cause problems (drivers & such)?  I've never used XP Backup - does it work like Ghost and copy every file on partition C? - what is the difference between them?  Please pardon my ignorance, but where is the BIOS stored?

AnnaSummers

----- Original Message ----- 
From: Abdussamad Abdurrazzaq 
To: [log in to unmask] 
Sent: Monday, October 10, 2005 12:01 PM
Subject: Re: [PCBUILD] XP backup disk


Hello

You might want to try making an XP live CD. Once you have burned the CD,
you must insert it into you CD-ROM drive and boot your computer off the
CD. A minimal version of XP will run directly off off the CD.

To make the CD you will need to download a program called Bart's
Preinstalled Environment. You can learn more at:
http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/

Abdussamad
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Peter wrote:

>Is it possible to create a bootable XP CD that will allow me to run XP
>backup without first installing XP onto the hard drive? I have an XP backup
>of a system that I want to install on a new computer. I have used Norton
>Ghost to transfer networked computers, and perhaps that may be an easier way
>to go, but I was just wondering about the XP backup anyway in case a system
>ever needed to be restored from a crash. In the past, I have always ended up
>installing a minimal XP on the new hard disk before doing the restore. I
>would like to avoid that step if possible.
>
>Thank you for any pointers.
>
>Peter

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