what on earth have you been doing, and why were you using fdisk? deleting the parition was a bit drastic, wasn't it? a repair install of XP would have done the trick. Unless you've been listening to that there Esquilaz again and you're still on W'95 OSR2.

oh yeah, well fyi right now i am in the process of moving 60 gigs of music, movies, emulators, modding tools and resources, and my collection of must-have windows apps over a friggin -wireless- connection... this should only take all day >_<

*points and laughs*

do it in bite-size chunks CV, esp if your wireless connection is a bit ropey. takes longer but at least it works, and doesn't tie up resources with that "preparing to copy" Windows rubbish.

*Calls from shadows* Lies! All lies! I ain't been tellin' 'im nothin'. If I 'ad, 'e'd 'ave a backup image and be able to restore his partition in minutes.

I don't even know why you'd want to use f-disk anymore. The command is moot in my opinion, XP provides one with all the partition goodness one needs these days.

*Calls from shadows* And what happens if explorer don't work no more, eh Guv? Or things is goin' pear-shaped and Windows won't boot? The commandline will always have a place in operating systems.

Boot from the CD squire.

what if the user needs their machine back up and running in a faster time than it takes to install Vindows, and you don't have the drivers to hand, just an XP cd?

Boot from the CD? But what if you don't have a CD drive and have to install Windows from 5.25 floppy discs like Taw?

y'see, that's where you made your mistake, mentioning me and Windows in the same sentence.

I thought of the cd-drive issue but he could use a portable cd-drive or boot from the network, or even boot to a PE environment from a usb flash drive. I'm just surprised that the Muskrat would even consider installing Windows from scratch, what a chore, I only do it now when I de-Vista new laptops and install XP on them. I don't think that I've installed XP from scratch for 6 months now, although i've done a few repair installs which take almost as long but at least you don't have to pfaff around after drivers. Also standardised equipment helps, one base image for all pcs.

it's not like you even have to bother paying for Ghost anymore, Drive Snapshot is free for 30days and to use it after that period all you need to do is d/l the latest .exe and boot from a PE disk or drive with the new snapshot.exe on. Easy-peasy-lemon=sqeasy.

you're only jealous because my 5&1/4" drives still work and yours...don't.

Edited by - Tawakalna on 9/24/2007 5:10:54 AM

My 5.25" drive works, or at least it did when I last used it... in the 80's!

isn't that the last time Typhon worked?

Edited by - Tawakalna on 9/27/2007 1:48:02 PM

Taw, i think thats the last time Esq had to get Typhon back from the museum of Ancient Antiquities after they stole it because it was so old.