Windows xp recovery software?

Russ86

Russ86

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I'm giving away an old PC I have sitting in my basement collecting dust. I know eventually they are going to fuck it up and have to recover it.

I remember awhile back there was software that you could just create a disc that would restore it back to the condition you gave it to them in. I could just give them a windows disc, but I have a lot of custom drivers installed, and they are completely computer illiterate... so that's out.

Anyone know what I'm referring to here, I believe xp pro has something like this built in, but I don't think that's it either as it just backs up the files on your partition.

Perhaps these tits will jog your memory...

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Il try to help you out here buddy.

You can try running and booting the computer in safe mode. Press F8 or F10 repeateadly when starting your computer. It should take you to a black screen where you will be given a list of choices (you choose safe mode). You will then be entered into your desktop, and you should see System Restore (you can't miss it). Choose that and find a suitable date to restore the computer to.

If this doesn't work, then all I can advice is reinstall a fresh copy of Windows XP/Visa/7 and then just simply use programs like Driver Doctor or Driver Detective to automatically add drivers again.
 
O rly bro??? that it? you just pressed the f10 button? wow. I thought it would be so much more complicated.


lol I'm not trying to recover my computer, buddy.. I'm giving a computer to someone and if and when they fuck it up, I want them to be able to recover it painlessly.

I'm pretty sure Acronis does this so I'm tryin it out.
 
Yeah, the System Recovery should be able to help them out. However, it may not be that advanced.

Acronis does it 100% well. It can get quite expensive. Also check out RedoBackup.
 
Something I learned along the way, for recovery make sure you give them the same version of whatever you used to make the image. Whenever possible, write them as img or iso files and not some proprietary format like gho or tib.

I got tons of old images that won't be read by anything but the older versions of the software used to make them. Any program you use, should be able to 'make a boot disc' for recovery purposes- make 2 or 3 of them, keep 2 and give 1 out, even though they will lose it.

And when you make the recovery disc- make sure it will be able to read images from USB, network, SATA and whatever else. You never know what you're gonna need to be able to do (or what you can not do because they fucked it up so bad).

Also, don't bother encrypting these images, you'll probably lose the password and they will sit there and laugh at you while you reinstall windows.
 
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