At 01:39 AM 4/27/2004, you wrote:
>
>Hi there on the list,
>Latly there has been a lot of discussion on the list about reinstalling
>windows without losing installed programs and that got me wondering how one
>could make a rescue or two cd's like the ones that came with my sons
>e-machines PC. ... how could one make a bootible CD with Win and all of your
>installed programs, is it possible with board programs or free ware?
>If not what programs would be needed. If this is complicated it could be a
>good how to for the web page.
>Thank You
>Paul Ryan
>Germany


See:
http://lists.gpick.com/pages/Backup~Recovery_Tools.htm

for example:

SavePart - Freeware -

http://perso.club-internet.fr/guiboure/en/index_frame.html

"Savepart is a DOS program to save, restore and copy hard-drive partitions.

"With this program you could save all data of a partition into a file then save this file (on a CD by example). Then if something goes wrong with this partition and need install of all softwares back, you can restore the saved partition.  So with such a program you do not need to install all softwares: you have just to restore the file that contains the saving of this partition and then update softwares you install/uninstall/modify since creation of this file.  Savepart is able to compress data (using the gzip algorithm) and to split them into several files (by example if you need to save a 2 Gb partition on CD, this will be possible with deflating it and, if necessary, splitting it into 650 Mb files).  Almost all partition types are supported. In the case of FAT (12, 16 and 32), ext2 and NTFS partitions, you could also choose between saving all sectors or only occupied one."






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