Thomas;
>> Unfortunately, there aren't too many disk imaging programs I'd recommend.
>> Both Norton Ghost (the old version) and DriveImage (the old version) have
>> problems.
>I agree here. Norton really seems like technology from the past (DOS,
>16bit mode etc).
I disagree about that part.
T
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> > The rescue disks aren't an OEM copy of WinXP Home, they
> > are a set of 6 CD's containing a very fixed version of
> > Partition Quest's partition restorer. I went down into
>
> Ahh...
>
> Yeah, you got screwed.
>
> I thought those kinds of practices went out w
On 4/29/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Ben;
> Unfortunately, there aren't too many disk imaging programs I'd recommend.
> Both Norton Ghost (the old version) and DriveImage (the old version) have
> problems. And I certainly wouldn't recommend the new versions. None of the
Ben;
> The rescue disks aren't an OEM copy of WinXP Home, they
> are a set of 6 CD's containing a very fixed version of
> Partition Quest's partition restorer. I went down into
Ahh...
Yeah, you got screwed.
I thought those kinds of practices went out with Win98.
But yeah, I guess some manufac
Ben;
>> > the bat files that manipulate this thing, and there is
>> > a bios checker to make sure that the bios of the laptop
>>
>> I'm pretty sure the 'bios checker' is probably checking for the digital
>> signature in the BIOS.
>
> It just looks for a string. You wanna see the bat files?
> I
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Hertz has alreadyc ommented a bit, but I thought I'd add a few thoughts.
>
> > It dawned on me that I really hate the fact that I can't
> > really install my HP restore CD's on anything but my
>
> Welcome to Microsoft's grip on the world
>
> I've never seen a
Ben;
Hertz has alreadyc ommented a bit, but I thought I'd add a few thoughts.
> It dawned on me that I really hate the fact that I can't
> really install my HP restore CD's on anything but my
Welcome to Microsoft's grip on the world
I've never seen an HP restore cd, but if it's anything lik
Hi,
If I remember correctly, the HP Rescue CD is one heck of a patched XP
+ tons of HP's drivers, utilities and programs which you cannot use
with QEMU, so you'll probably get a really slow XP even if you could
install the rescue CD.
Try to get a generic OEM CD version of XP or retails or an MSDN
It dawned on me that I really hate the fact that I can't
really install my HP restore CD's on anything but my
laptop, including a qemu session. Wouldn't be kind of a
cool thing to provide a bios signature so things like the
HP rescue disks could be used to create a qemu disk image,
while maintaini
