Windows XP: Creating Disaster Recovery CD
Creating Disaster Recovery CD
by polaris6 - 10/10/08 3:58 AMI am trying to create a Disaster Recovery CD for my laptop and can't find any instructions as to how this is done. I have a PC Dell laptop with XP (3) OS.
I have Norotn Ghost (9.0 registered) installed. I also have Norton Ghost 2003 which has a feature to create a recovery disk but 'interfers with NG 9.0.
Direction please.
How to deal with disaster
by OttifantSir - 10/11/08 6:23 AM In reply to: Creating Disaster Recovery CD by polaris6Get an external harddrive, at least as large as the harddrive of your computer (or the Documents And Settings-folder, whichever contains the most valuable information). Download GParted CloneZilla CD here: http://www.tuxdistro.com/torrents-details.php?id=697&hit=1 , and use it. You will have to learn to type about 5 commands on a command-line, and you will have to wait for files to be copied to the external harddrive. When that's done, you have a copy of the contents of your harddrive. Re-install XP and copy what you need from the external.
My brother screwed up his XP-laptop, and this was what I did AFTER the disaster had happened. He got all his documents and such back.
This is free as in free beer AND free speech, as GParted-Clonezilla is GPLed software. You have to pay for the harddrive though.
About your software
by OttifantSir - 10/11/08 6:25 AM In reply to: How to deal with disaster by OttifantSirChoose ONE of them. NOT both. ONE. Preferrably the latest. And get an external harddrive.
Disaster Relief ?
by polaris6 - 10/11/08 6:46 AM In reply to: About your software by OttifantSirThanks...I have an external HD. and I use it. The latest 'Ghost' in my possession is 9.0. But that does not have the option (at least not obvious) to create a Disaster Recorery CD. How do I create such a CD with 9.0?
Nearly every bit of advice to newbies is to create a disaster recovery disk/cd; how does one do that?
I am not in a 'disaster' mode; I want to take the necessary steps to reduce the trauma of recovery BEFORE it happens.
Clone-zilla CD
by polaris6 - 10/11/08 7:14 AM In reply to: How to deal with disaster by OttifantSirI cannot d/l this file. What I get is a *.torrent file about 6KB in length and it is non-executable.
*.torrent-files
by OttifantSir - 10/11/08 11:24 AM In reply to: Clone-zilla CD by polaris6This is an index-file if you wish. It's meant to be opened in a client such as (my favourite) µTorrent, available here: www.utorrent.com
The program is the smallest BitTorrent-client I know of, and the most versatile. It's not illegal to use µTorrent or any other BitTorrent-client. It's not illlegal to download the GParted-CloneZilla CD through µTorrent, because it's under a GPL-license.
This is what's called Peer-To-Peer filesharing.
CloneZilla is the free (as in free beer and free speech) version of tools such as Norton Ghost.
A recovery CD is usually done by using a program to burn a DVD/CD with system restore points and settings, and a User Interface (UI) to facilitate the restoration of said settings and restore point. CloneZilla does that, only with the entire harddrive as a carboncopy onto the external. When disaster strikes, you put in the GParted-CloneZilla CD and run a few commands to restore your computer's settings and other things. What CloneZilla CAN do, is to restore only portions of the carboncopy. I for one know of no other program able to do that, that is working like Ghost and CloneZilla does.
It isn't useful to say do this and that because you will need to learn to do this without having any other help than the CD itself, no matter which program you want to use to do it. If you download the GParted-CloneZilla CD, you have a lot of help, as it includes several man pages (Linux Manual for programs).
Direct link to CD
by OttifantSir - 10/11/08 11:26 AM In reply to: Clone-zilla CD by polaris6http://free.nchc.org.tw/GParted-Clonezilla/gparted-clonezilla-2.2.iso
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