Saturday, August 7, 2010

Imaging my mini 9

Pissed off after spending half a day restoring XP to my mini 9...decided to Set up a backup image.

Need a USB drive, no larger than 4gb. Must be FAT16 (FAT) formatted.

Installed Macrium Reflect
http://www.macrium.com/reflectfree.asp

Followed these instructions on how to prep a USB recovery disk.
http://www.macrium.com/blog/CommentView,guid,7dc864ff-7b53-420c-9b79-c318c3050bc6.aspx

Use Macrium Reflect to create an image. Save the image to another USB disk (FAT32).

Test out the recovery procedure:

Boot from the USB recovery disk.
Insert the disk containing the image.
Followed the recommended recovery settings.
Boot with restored HD.
XP does a Filesystem check before booting successfully.
It works!




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