re logic of backup in article c g j pk cs uiuc edu ioerger sophocles cs uiuc edu thomas ioerger writes so i think there are possibilities i m right if my disk really crashes i would at least have to re install dos and windows to get the backup program working using the software you re using i agree with you there what i did i installed dos windows and cpbackup functionally the same as your norton for the purposes of this discussion and used the dos backup command on just that much to restore i boot to the system diskette and use dos restore to read in that much then boot to windows and restore my full backups using cpb norton in your case overwriting what i ve just restored that allows me to keep this skeletal windows essentially unchanged with all my customization on the real copy done using the rd party backup utility i m wrong there is an easy way to make a mirror of a hard disk that can easily restore it s state from scratch seems possible if you can put skeletal versions of dos and your backup utility on a system floppy then you could restore it all on one go martin lodahl systems analyst capacity planning pacific bell malodah pacbell com sacramento ca usa if it s good for ancient druids runnin nekkid through the wuids drinkin strange fermented fluids it s good enough for me unk
