Users at our institute often "kill" their Win95/98/NT PC installing
weird Software or by deleting essential drivers and dll-files.
The normal way to restore such a PC is using the DRM-Diskettes
and recovering the diskimage.
As many of our PC have disks of 10 GB and more, we need too
much time (and server space) to make DRM backups and restores.
In addition many users avoid the trouble to make a standalone DRM
backup and go just the normal way using the Windows client of
ADSM so that there exists no up-to-date DRM-Backup file.

We tried to do a complete restore by installing Win with TCP/IP
networking and Win32 ADSM client. But if we try to restore the
complete disk C: to this PC, Windows does not allow ADSM to
overwrite many of the system files, so that the resulting system is not
fully functional.
Next we tried to modify the OS/2 DRM diskettes to use the linemode
client dsmc to restore the files, but the fat32 ifs does not work
properly.
When we try a DOS 7 (Win98) boot disk with TCP/IP client we can
access the fat32 partition on disk but long filename support is not
given (in addition we don't have an ADSM-DOS client).

So here is my question: does anyone know an effective way to do
an ADSM restore of the complete volume C: (>2GB) to a
Windows95/98(/NT4) PC without using DRM?

Jochen Bartz, ZA University of Cologne