Factory made rescue disks. Beautiful, genius idea. Simply whack it in, boot up and click start...ish. All your problems go away, and the PC is new again. Too bad for custom built PC's, huh? Is there a way of creating your own rescue disk, that does like all the drivers, all the important stuff, without having to format the disk and start over? I know that's only what a rescue disk does, but it would be a lot easier than trying to find the drivers, download the drivers, restart, reinstall etc etc etc....any ideas?
Well, what you can do is make a slipstreamed XP disc and add the drivers you want into it. I know I've seen them around, but none come to mind, mainly because I haven't made one my self. There's also a means of creating an unattended install as well, and it's pretty neat. Off hand, I don't know if I've still got my text book for Win2k server, but the principle would be the same, seeing as XP is more or less just Win2k Home (IMO). You'd be writing a small file with specific info on it that you put on a floppy and the installer takes the values you've filled in, including the Product key. The other way would be to get Norton Ghost, or some other mirroring software. I know there's a Linux-based program like Ghost, but I can't think of it for the life of me. I'm trying to remember if Anti-Trend posted it or not. So...yes, there's a few means that can do what you want to do. Links, I don't have currently, but I'll have it in the back of my mind when I'm surfing around. Microsoft should have some documentation on this, and you might browse the news archives over at NT Compatible.
