The WinPE method I documented is entirely stand alone, using a boot manager rather than relying on a function key. Symantec Ghost is designed to provide imaging over a network as well as other bootable solutions.
Since Ghost operations can be scripted, it is quite simple to come up with a menu that gives users the ability to restore a previously created image. If WinPE boot was chosen, I then had access to a command line from which I could launch Ghost32.exe (in my case Ghost 8.3) and use it to create or deploy images. In my test system, I could boot either WinPE or the main XP operating system using Window's own boot management (xp would boot by default after 2 seconds delay). I did some experimentation with dual boot systems, as part of some work with WinPE, and you will find it documented here: Adventures with WinPE Symantec Connect Trying to implement the recovery key technique used by certain manufacturers is not so simple, as their method mostly requires the involvement of the BIOS and/or a piece of boot manager code somewhere on the hard disk that interacts with the function key used for system recovery.įor "standalone" system recovery, your hardware needs to be able to boot into a separate operating environment, which can then run the recovery utility (in this case Ghost) to re-image the target partition from an image stored on the recovery partition. Making a recovery partition is not that difficult and googling on this topic yields many different solutions.
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