Daniel Loose wrote:
> I have installed a lot of stuff on a fresh XP Pro and lots of configs
> and settings (in programs and windows) - a complete and complex
> working environment - and now wish to make a snapshot/ image in the
> following way to have a simple fallback:

I stick a linux disk in, and tar backup the drive to a network file.

http://markhobley.yi.org/linux/howto/xpbackup.html

I don't know how good xp is at moving from computer to computer though, so I
don't know how you would get on restoring to a computer with a different
motherboard. I know that on earlier versions of Windows, if I had a
motherboard failure and replaced the motherboard, the installation became
screwed and I had to reinstall everything.

Mark.

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Daniel Loose wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have installed a lot of stuff on a fresh XP Pro and lots of configs
> and settings (in programs and windows) - a complete and complex
> working environment - and now wish to make a snapshot/ image in the
> following way to have a simple fallback:
>
> That again at any time in the future on any fresh XP Pro on any (!) PC
> I could create an installation identically to mine now, with "a single
> click", without re-installing the stuff, and start work immediately,
> at the same point as now.

You can make a disk image of course (therer are lots of programmes for
that) but it most certainly won't work as you wish on another PC, for
the hardware will be com^pletely different and require other drivers.