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    Dell E1405: How to backup my XP with Ghost ?

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by Serville, Jun 17, 2006.

  1. Serville

    Serville Notebook Consultant

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    Question 1:
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    First, I only have the free Ghost.exe for DOS.
    I have backed up my XP partition to an external USB harddisk.
    But now, I question myself : How do I make a bootable Restore CD for this if I don't have the DOS driver for the DVD+RW ?
    Usually with desktop & cdrom, I make a bootable CD which automatically loads oakcdrom.sys to load my cdrom driver in DOS, and then restore a ghost imagefile to my hd.

    How can I do this with my E1405 ? I don't see a DOS driver for my DVD+RW.

    Question 2 :
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    Does the full version of Norton make a working bootable CD/DVD with Dell laptop specifically E1405 ? Doesn't Norton need a DOS driver for Dell CD/DVD to achieve this ?
     
    Serville, Jun 17, 2006
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    It works. I just use oakcdrom.sys like I usually do to create a bootable restore CD, and it works without a problem. Never thought of it. Thanks guy.
     
    Serville, Jun 19, 2006
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