Peter, have a look here: http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/ I am currently working on gettting all the plugins that I want installed. I am using a R/W CD to test each stage. The basic PE disc will give you an idea of what it can do. Only thing besides the live linux CDs that I've found to be able to look at NTFS. The PE boot disc gives you the ability to make changes, also. I think it also has a Ghost plugin plus DriveImage and Acronis. George Date: Sun, 9 Oct 2005 07:56:18 -0700 From: Peter <[log in to unmask]> Subject: XP backup disk 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 ---------------------------------- [log in to unmask] -- George&Mary Skokan (skokans at yahoo dot com) __________________________________ Yahoo! Music Unlimited Access over 1 million songs. Try it free. http://music.yahoo.com/unlimited/ PCBUILD maintains hundreds of useful files for download visit our download web page at: http://freepctech.com/downloads.shtml