Advice needed for an advanced backup for PC (ghost/drive image)

daveg

A mate of mine asked me to rebuild his new (ish) Dell pc over the weekend. I read the manual and it said that a hidden recovery partition held a backup image of the pc. All I had to do was hit 2 keys during bootup, was then prompted "do you wish to restore PC to factory settings", and then Norton ghost restored image in 2 mins.

I'm familiar Norton & drive image but liked the hidden partition, hitting 2 keys restore image process. It's a pain having to locate the boot cd, waiting for it to load, searching for the backup file etc for the normal restore image process.

What I would like to do is set this up on my own PC. Would be great if it was as automated as possible so I hit a key on boot up and restore my image from a hidden partition.

Any tips?

Kali

Fairly easy I'd imagine, theres two things you'll need:

1) Bootloader.
2) Bootable O/S on the secondary partition.

The operating system on the secondary partition can then be setup to automatically load a pre-named image e.g. call ghost.exe from autoexec.bat in MS-DOS. Play around with the command-line options for ghost and I'm sure it can be done without any prompt required although maybe a Are You Sure?? Y/N should be a necessary addition.

daveg

Thanks Kali. Looks like this might work:

http://www.gatago.com/alt/***os/9166917.html

Kali

daveg wrote:

Thanks Kali. Looks like this might work:

http://www.gatago.com/alt/***os/9166917.html

that *** is m s d for anyone interested. bizarre.