On Fri, 30 May 1997 16:26:58 -0400, Michael R Vogt wrote:
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>I do not have a locally attached backup device or an OS/2 system available,
>so it looks to me like my only choice is to create bootable DOS diskettes,
>as explained in the DOS/Windows 3.1 procedure.
>
>Is this correct? And if so, where do I find all those files? Quite a few are
>nowhere to be found on my Windows 95 system. Do I need to find an old Win 3.1
>system or is there an alternate list of Win 95 files that I can use?
Hallo Michael,
as a member of the Bare Metal Restore Project, I have to add that we had a lot
of trouble finding a way to recover Win95 and WinNT without installing the whole
operating system again. You're right, we only found those tree methods in the
case of Win95. Unfortunately those methods are only for people who have access
to this 'special' kind of equipment and are not simple to implement. It seems
to be less
time intensive to reinstall from scratch, but this was not the way we looked
for. (We asked
some guys from Mircosoft for some hints or tips, but didn't get any response!
BTW, we also
asked on ADSM-L for suggestions about any kind of operating system, but the
response
was not remarkable.) If one of those methods is practical for you, you WILL be
much faster
back on production as on reinstalling the system, but you have to spend time in
testing the
stuff as we did. Not even one system looks like another. To keep the book up
to date
(it's was written in Aug./Sept. '96) we're realy interested in any practical
way of doing recovery
from scratch.
Klaus
PS: Don't try to overload a reinstalled base system with an ADSM backup, it
will normaly kill the
whole machine. Try to install to a temp directory or even better to a separate
partition and fix
the boot strap or use a boot manager.
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