I have tried many times to restore from a backup on XP and have failed 100%. I have used backup, Norton Ghost, and Drive Image. I am going to try Nero to make an ISO soon. Does anybody have a foolproof way to get a PC back up after a failure with a backup. I have a dial up and the 40 odd updates take 2 days to download after instaling SP1a, not counting the Norton System works downloads, not counting all the serial number entries on the little chicken $h&t programs I have, not counting all the settings I change to get the right wallpapers, fonts and file attributes I like, and setting the 3 monitors settings. Yes, I tried the settings import feature, got about 50% right. I put my e-mail on another drive folder and my MetaStock data folder on another drive and any other thing I don't want to loose like my documents. XP, of course, has its own place it wants to put all these things. From viruses to blown motherboards and just bad luck, I have had to format C: probably 10 times this year, and it's only August. I would love to have one of those restoral disks to pop in and be up in an hour. I am downloading SP2 as I type, so in about a week of downloading, I will be, of course, doing it again. I'm a geek and can't help myself.
If I could only learn Linux!!! If I could only learn anything,......just anything, at my age.
If I could only learn Linux!!! If I could only learn anything,......just anything, at my age. Hey it is still possible to learn at an advanced age, I'm doing it, but I didn't take the approach of trying to install Linus on the same machine with Windows XP.... .. I just setup a separate machine , got me some Linus stuff and installed, it and I am now browsing only with Linux.
There are multiple ways to get there, an easy way is to buy the Sams ...Teach yourself Red Hat Linux Fedora in 24 hours.. (less than $30.) . has a CD containg Fedora, download that baby , give it the whole machine and the disks, and go.... well, if you have modem access to the network as opposed to broad band check a computer forum somewhere to see if your specific modem is supported... Watch out for Gigabit Network cards also, bought one that Fedora wouldn't talk too... other specialized hardware like scanners, USB devices, special RAID cards also...
Try it and have some fun!