> 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
>