Help Restore System From Recovery Image CDs: The boot order of the bios must be set to boot from floppy diskette and CDROM before Hard drive 0. BEWARE that all data on C: partition will be erased Keep your documents and files on a separate partition from Windows C:. Or copy info to another partition first! This is awkward, slow and unreliable! It's much beter to create the image on the HD! If HD space is limited then create image on CDs. You need a CD burner to burn image on CD Disks. Often Image on CD will not validate, giving error reading from file. Often the customers CDROM will not read the image on CD even though it validated on my CD burner. Also, this method may fail if HD0 contains errors or bad sectors! Put BootIT Boot floppy disk in floppy drive and start computer OR Start computer quickly put BootIt Boot CD Disk in CDROM Drive BootIt setup screen appears Click CANCEL Click OK Click PARTITION WORK Click CDz Click IMAGE Follow instructions on screen: It will eject the first CD and request the last CD of recovery CD set Put last CD in CD tray. Close CD tray. Click OK It will eject last CD and request first CD of recovery CD set Put the first CD in CD tray. Close CD tray. Click OK When it says paste pending (size) at bottom of screen: click HD0 select partition of same size (Usually 1st partition) Click PASTE click yes to warning all data will be erased Click OK to partition info displayed Click NO to bypass Validation It will start recovering the CD image starting with the first CD It will eject first CD and request the next CD of recovery CD set Put next CD in CD tray. Close CD tray. Click OK OR hit enter key This process will repeat untill all CDs of recovery CD set is read. When recovery is completed successfully: Click OK It will eject the last CD of recovery CD set Remove CD from CD tray. Close CD tray. If you are using a boot floppy: Check to make sure HD0 is active: click view MBR >Set active if not set active >apply Remove boot floppy disk from floppy drive. restart computer If you are using a boot CD: Restart PC with boot CD in the CDROM Click CANCEL Click OK Click PARTITION WORK Check to make sure HD0 is active: click view MBR >Set active if not set active >apply Remove Boot CD from CDROM drive. Restart computer ----------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Help Restore System From Recovery Image File On Data Partition: The boot order of the bios must be set to boot from floppy diskette and CDROM before Hard drive 0. BEWARE that all data on C: partition will be erased Keep your documents and files on a separate partition from Windows C:. Or copy info to another partition first! Put BootIT Boot floppy disk in floppy drive and start computer OR Start computer quickly put BootIt Boot CD Disk in CDROM Drive BootIt setup screen appears Click CANCEL Click OK Click PARTITION WORK Click On partition where image is located Click IMAGE Select Restore from file Click on image file, I call it backup1.img Click OK When it says paste pending (size) at bottom of screen: click HD0 select partition of same size Click PASTE click yes to warning all data will be erased Click OK to partition info displayed Click NO to bypass Validation The image will recover When recovery is completed successfully: Click OK Check to make sure HD0 is active: click view MBR >Set active if not set active >apply Remove boot floppy disk from floppy drive OR Remove Boot CD from CDROM drive. Restart computer ----------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Help Create Recovery Image CD For HD0: The boot order of the bios must be set to boot from floppy diskette and CDROM before Hard drive 0. This is awkward, slow and unreliable! It's much beter to create the image on the HD! If HD space is limited then create image on CDs. You need a CD burner to burn image on CD Disks Often Image on CD will not validate, giving error reading from file. Often the customers CDROM will not read the image on CD even though it validated on my CD burner. Also, this method may fail if HD0 contains errors or bad sectors! Put BootIT Boot floppy disk in floppy drive and start computer OR Start computer quickly put BootIt Boot CD Disk in CDROM Drive BootIt setup screen appears Click CANCEL Click OK Click PARTITION WORK Select HD0 partition (usually selected by default) Click IMAGE When it says paste pending at bottom of screen: Click CDz Click PASTE Click YES TO VALIDATE Follow instructions on screen: Put Labeled Blank disk in CD tray. Close CD tray. Click OK After image has been written to Blank CDs BootIT will ask for CD #1 If the CDz validate then Operation completes successfully. If using a boot floppy then remove it before you Restart Computer Be sure to properly label the CDs. Do Not mix up series! ----------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Help Create Recovery Image File For HD0: The boot order of the bios must be set to boot from floppy diskette and CDROM before Hard drive 0. This is the preferred method. It's faster and more reliable than creating CDs! This method works when creating CDs fail. However, this method may fail if HD0 contains errors or bad sectors! Put BootIT Boot floppy disk in floppy drive and start computer OR Start computer quickly put BootIt Boot CD Disk in CDROM Drive BootIt setup screen appears Click CANCEL Click OK Click PARTITION WORK Select HD0 partition (usually selected by default) Click IMAGE When it says paste pending at bottom of screen: Select any partition larger than HD0 Click PASTE Give the Image File a name (default extension is .img) Click OK Click YES TO VALIDATE If it validates then Operation completes successfully. If using a boot floppy then remove it before you Restart Computer ------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------- Using BootIt to Format Fat32 Quickly! Formating large HDs can be extremely time consuming! The Win 98 Boot floppy disk will not format anything lager than 60 GB. Simply format a small empty fat32 partition of 200 MB Then create an image of it on CD or HD partition. Restore this image on your large unpartioned free space. Then simply resize to maximum size. Bingo! You have partitioned 200 GB in less than 30 seconds! Chris Dr PC 416 398 3772 drpcdr.ca cccharlee@yahoo.com Discussion: An Image can be used to install windows on different PC systems! Such a working image should NOT contain specific drivers for NIC, audio, modem, printer, camera and video. Images save time and are "lifeboats" when Windows sinks! With a recovery image you can recover your system in less than 1 hour. The recovery image will work on any hard drive of equal or greater capacity as the one from which the CDs were made. If mydocuments, favorites, myshared, and outlook folders are moved to the data partition then the recovery process does not destroy the customers data! However, virus, spyware and malware are removed from Windows. And your Windows and programs are restored! What an elegant solution! You Big PC manufacturers should make system recovery CDs that don't destroy customer's data! Chris Dr PC 905 794 4142 cccharlee@yahoo.com http://drpcdr.ca, Tel 905 794 4142 71 Sentinel Rd Toronto, ON Canada M3J 1T1 cccharlee@yahoo.com Get Bootit NG Image software: http://www.snapfiles.com/get/bootitng.html