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Courtesy of Phil Cetrone..

Here's a brief description of a way to easily create your own recovery
CD if you have the Ultrabay CD-RW drive and Powerquest Drive Image 4.0.
It's better than the IBM recovery CD because you can choose to save (and
then restore) anything from your most basic initial installation to a
very complex setup with all your tweaks and many of your programs.
There are several ways to accomplish this and I have done it only one
particular way with Win 98 and Win ME, and make no claims relative to
setups that differ from mine. The general information should be useful
to you.

My A21p setup happens to include the following partitions, created with
Partition Magic, and using the included Boot Magic to select an
operating system at bootup:

C: Primary Win 98
C: Primary Win ME
Extended, with Logical D:, E:, F:, G:, and H:

I did this primarily to test Win ME on the A21p without giving up Win
98. (I'm glad I did --- Win ME is not so great.) I have created two
separate recovery CD's --- one for each operating system, and *only* for
drive C: in each case. The other drives are backed up to a Jaz 2GB
drive from Windows. Therefore, disaster recovery consists of restoring
the C: drive from DOS using Drive Image and the CD-RW in the Ultrabay,
followed by restoring the remaining drives from the Jaz drive in
Windows.

First, purchase and install Drive Image 4.0, during which you will
create a DOS emergency boot disk set. Drivers that work with the CD-RW
are included automatically on the disks.

Second, you will need several blank, *unformatted* CD-R or CD-RW disks.
Drive Image will automatically span disks.

Third, set up your C: drive with as much or as little of your software
as you like. Mine has the OS, all my tweaks, and quite a few programs.
Drive Image uses some compression, but of course the more on your drive,
the more blank CD's you will need.

Fourth, run scandisk to resolve any errors.

Fifth, use the Drive Image boot disk to start your computer. Follow the
on screen instructions to choose, name, and save your drive to CD.

That's it! To restore, just use the DI boot disk again and follow the
program instructions to copy the image from your recovery CD(s).

If you don't use a Jaz drive as I do, you can easily use Drive Image to
create CD's of your other drives and data. This program is one of the
best utilities on the market.

One final thought: The DI terminology and process may be a little
confusing for some people at first, so be sure to study the
documentation until you have a clear picture of what you will be doing.
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