Win XP Home/Pro Recovery

[telstars]

Hi,

I was wondering if somebody could help!! I am after some way of recovering xp from a hidden partition on a drive with the os running like sony and other high volume pc companies do... I am having to ship out 60 Pc's of the same build and if there are any problems then the person could just simply put the os back on as I sent it out. Please..Please if anybody knows of software or a way of doing it then could you help?? Greatly appreciated.

Andy

[prathapml]

Single touch recovery ?

I'd say hidden partition with ghost8+ a .GHO image.

A DOS bootable boot-sector for that partition, with a modified autoexec.bat to run ghost straight-away with switches to restore the image.

A boot-option on NTLDR to "Restore config"

And the image password-protected, so that its not accidentally restored.

And the sysadmin at client's place informed about the password.

That should do it. More details available, if you aren't familiar with the above..... try searching this forum.

If you'd rather not use ghost, there's other options like TrueImage, PQDI7, etc. - but those aren't quite as easy nor powerful.

Do post back on how it goes.

[telstars]

Can anybody help me with this little project!! I am willing to offer a price to a workable solution.. Need to be able to restore os from hidden partition like the leading companies do!!

[prathapml]

well, price not a concern. You can do it yourself.

The solution has been posted above.

Just search around this forum here, and a bit of googling, and before 10 hours have passed, you'll have it done. Its easy - and if you think your skill-level is not up to this task, you'll be surprised to discover that you under-estimated yourself.

[jaclaz]

Personally, I would use BootitNG:

http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/

(COMMERCIAL)

Or you could do it with freeware using a mix of

XOSL

http://www.ranish.com/part/xosl.htm

Bart's PE

http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/

DD for windows

http://uranus.it.swin.edu.au/~jn/linux/rawwrite/dd.htm

jaclaz