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Title: Back Up
Post by: arthurb on November 23, 2003, 17:54

I have recently downloaded lots of windows updates from the web. How can I create a back up disk of my XP Pro SP1 OS with the recent upgrades so that I won't need to download them again should I have to re-load the OS?

Title: Re:Back Up
Post by: Adept on November 24, 2003, 07:17

AFAIK, you will have to wait for Service Pack 2 before you can do that ArthurB. The service packs have a mechanism that allows you to integrate their files into a folder containing the original XP CD files. You can then burn the resultant folder to another CD.

Title: Re:Back Up
Post by: ketamininja on November 25, 2003, 13:28

You could create an IMAGE of the HDD (or partition).
Norton GHOST or PQMagic will allow you to do this.

Go to the SYMANTEC website and check out ghost.