Re: Does anyone use .NET applications?

Ingvar Nilsen wrote:

> Ok, this is how I am doing it. I always work from a bootable CD. I
> have written a DOS program with a nice GUI that wraps the GHOST
> functions.
>
> 1) I make the image, running from the bootable CD. The GUI supports
> most GHOST settings, like compression level etc.
> 2) I fire up Windows and burn a new CD with the aforementioned
> program, which is bootable, together with the large image. Supports
> disk span in case it is needed.
> 3) Then I can boot from the CD at any time, and restore any partition
> I want.


That's an excellent idea. I do something similar but not as perfected
as you. I have made a bootable CD full of useful DOS utilities, such as
Ghost, PartitionMagic, MasterBooter, NTFSPRO, all kinds of file
decompressors, etc.. (DOS will never die!)

But lately I have a little problem: my Windows XP installation with SP2
integrated no longer fits in a single CD (it takes 861 MB, even with
high compression). I've tried disabling the hibernation file and
clearing the pagefile on shutdown, but still no success.
.

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