From: Richard B. 

On Mon, 27 Jan 2003 20:12:20 -0600, "Randy H"
 wrote:

>The ways I have used to restore W2K PC's quick is by an
>image restore (Ghost) or a Disaster Recovery backup
>(Veritas/Stomp, Dantz Retrospect.) The least quick way is
>a reinstall of W2K then using NTBACKUP to restore the disk.

Like I mentioned, I don't want to buy any imaging software. I've used Drive
Image for copying drives (usually for upgrade purposes) and have BackAgain
II if I wanted to go that route. I rarely have a workstation go down so I'm
not too worried about the time involved. I'd like to use the built in
backup for W2k.

>How different are each of your workstations? If they're all the same,
>I'd create a bare naked W2K install of a machine that I could
>image onto a bootable CD with Ghost. When you rebuild the
>roached machine, plop the CD in, do the image restore, then
>reboot and run NTBACKUP to restore the drive.

Mine are different enough to be a PITA. I'd like to have them more alike,
but being a small office the users have a bit more flexibility. Heck my
problem user whines when his icons move, no kidding.

>With WXP, Windows Activation poses enough roadblocks
>that you're better off staying with image backups.

No XP allowed here, except on a couple of laptops where I had no choice.

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