Strategy for doing a Restore-able OS install ??

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What's the best strategy for doing a restore-able OS install? I want to
'renew' it to newly installed configuration every 60 days or so. And I
don't want to have to update the OS after the new install each time.

So - how about a partition of 10-20gb for the OS (drive C) and the remainder
as drive D, which would contain the restore program and all program files
(at least all that I can direct to D) and all data files.

But - what recovery program would work for me? and how does it work since it
essentially wipes out the OS that runs it??

Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Bob
 
Acronis True Image

A clean install every 60 days seems a bit extream, looked at VM or similar
incarnations?
A seperate partition on the hd doesnt help if the hd fails
 
DL said:
Acronis True Image

A clean install every 60 days seems a bit extream, looked at VM or similar
incarnations?
A seperate partition on the hd doesnt help if the hd fails
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I use Acronis and it works very well...
but I agree that restorations every 60 days are a bit over-cautious.
A Win2k installation normally lasts for years with no problems
 
A bit extreme - - maybe. But I'm trying to place these (old, donated) units
with newly arrived refugee families who have the uncanny ability to scramble
things up good. A restore disk would sure make life easier for me! Okay,
forget the 60 day thing, but "occasionally" . . .

I checked out Acronis. I presume it works like Norton Ghost, right? But I
still don't see how I can get an entire restore fileset onto one CD. (Or can
I dump it to a DVD and boot from there??

Bob
 
InOverMyHead said:
A bit extreme - - maybe. But I'm trying to place these (old, donated) units
with newly arrived refugee families who have the uncanny ability to scramble
things up good. A restore disk would sure make life easier for me! Okay,
forget the 60 day thing, but "occasionally" . . .

I checked out Acronis. I presume it works like Norton Ghost, right? But I
still don't see how I can get an entire restore fileset onto one CD. (Or can
I dump it to a DVD and boot from there??

Bob
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Though I use Acronis...
I've only used it to backup to another HD...so I don't know about the
bootable DVD
but I did find this link


http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing/company/inpress/2006/06-17-ati.html



At any rate...a fresh install of Win2k should easily fit one one DVD

You can get Acronis as a free trial...so at least you can test the thing .

Now that you mention it...
I do have some friends who probably do have to use their factory restore
cd's every couple of months!
 
I too have only used Acronis to backup to HD, but I believe I read, on its
latest version, that it supports writing to multiple cd/dvds of the image
 
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