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travis - thanks for the info and the link too.

good one. ripken204 - Ok, guess what the parents of Dennis are obsessed with.

:puke: I for one would'nt have gone and positively would'nt suggest anyone with a weak stomach to go there to.

Without any viruses, the entire anti-virus program developing companies would not be there. So just adding a conspiracy angle on my side, maybe it's just something that an AV guy's release and then have a patch ready in hand to clean it up. Same applies to spyware/ malware/ adware/.....

You answered yes to 16 of 20 questions. You are 80% addicted to Porn. There has been 8283 person(s) as addicted as you. Ok, so I'm addicted

ner - Norton Ghost 2003 was the exact s/ware, that did the trick. Though it does need to reboot to dos. But this app solved my prob. Created a spaned bootable (hi-compressed) image of the HDD. Thanks.

Thanks to all for the replies. brelfielfan - Could you provide more details, regards the settings etc. I've been unable to do what you suggest. I'm having a 7gb partition for WinXp which is having over 5gb of unused space. I used high compression and what I got was a 663mb file which is though compact is not bootable. firefoxthebomb - Will give Norton a try. And I did clean up the sys of all temp files, prefetch, offline pages, temp files, cache, etc, before I did the above mentioned image. And I'd even done a defrag to keep the files nice and tight. And I already have the restore option disabled on my pc. ner - That's just what I wanted to do, create a bootable Ghost image. Are you referring to Norton 2003 ?? EDIT - Seems like there is already a thread on this issue HERE. My apologies for not using the search option first.

Needed to create a bootable image of the HDD, so that I could just reboot from the CD and restore to a particular state. Tried out Acronis True Image v8 and Symantec Norton Ghost v9, but both create an exact image of the entire drive (blank space included), which ends up to be huge. And both need to make a bootable floppy to load the images from the CD or any media the images are stored in. I'd been using some s/ware some time back, I think it was an older version of Symantec Ghost, which had a feature where you could just make a bootable image of the OS and data part, thereby omitting the blank space and with compression this image could be written on one single CD. Could someone suggest any s/ware to do this. Or maybe some setting's which I might be required on the above mentioned softwares. And I do have an unattended CD, but wanted have a sort of image of the drive to restore from. thanks.

Andromeda43 - Gotta agree that there is a tad bit of a slang in the English language of the American's which might be causing some problems in any verbally communication. Did'nt mean to start an "Andromeda bashing" round here. Hoping that we've sorted this out. Peace. The oursourcing can't be blamed on some particular country, it's the corporate's who decide this, for cost cutting and hence higher profits. So blaming India or China or any other such country would be quite baseless. Personally I'm totally against this sytem where the local is jobless and someone else somewhere is doing the same job at a lesser pay. But that's how it works.

WOW, that was fast. And, yup it's helped sort out the prob too. thank's

Just made a dual boot with Win98se and WinXp, though the display is ok on WinXp, it's real bad on Win98. Searched around and the only driver's available are for Win2K up. Anyone know or got a working driver for Win98se. Or any workaround for the display issue. Ty.

If you read and understand what I've typed, then this is one of the language's that we speak, read and write quite fluently. Just so you know there are school's and college's that teach the English language, where most of us have got our education. Sorry about being off topic, but that remark hurt. 1boredguy - The media is not exactly blowing this issue up, think about the numerous people who've lost their job's in the US and other similar countries, who are outsourcing. The companies go for it since they have to pay lesser, taking that the cost of living out here is much lower than say the US.

It could be a fact that most of the american's pay for the s/ware's, including the MS stuff, but totally unjustified in suggesting the other's don't. I ain't trying to justify the piracy thing, just pointing out that a reduced price can totally kill pirated stuff. And regards the "Can't pay Don't buy" thing. This is one of the reason's Linux is turning out to be the favourite amongst many people here, at least.

Had a somewhat similar situation, turned out to be a faulty power supply. Try using your power supply on her sys to check.