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Restore Partition

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Gawd
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Hey guys, help me out here. I built a PC for my mother in law about a year ago. Her son recently went in and wrecked havoc on it and now it won't boot and I am 6 hours away from where she lives. I am going up on Memorial day weekend for a visit and I am going to fix it while I am there.

My question is that does anyone know of a way I could create a partition with a restore image on it? I'd like to do a clean install of XP with all of her apps and then image it off to another partition as a backup just in case she ever runs into this again. I'd like for her to be able to reboot the computer with a bootable CD and have it do the restore for her automatically, she is not very computer literate at all and it would save me some time on the phone :)

I was thinking of making a boot CD with ghost on it and lauching it with a batch file, but she would still have to navigate in the interface, is there any way to automate this?
 
i'm not sure about the script file bit but you can make an image on a dvd and make the bootable restore program cd. then just write down the steps she needs to do. it shouldn't be more then a handful. this is if you are going to ship them over. if not then dual parition the drive with one partition containing the image, and then you just need the restore cd. hope this helped (you probably knew it already).
 
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