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To: d:oug who wrote (38984)	1/23/2004 10:45:37 PM
From: maceng2	Respond to of 110652

but to restore your harddrive to where it was yesterday or last week when everything was going good, and now your harddrive crashes, or them viruses and worms damages your pc to a point that it would require major time & cost to fix it, that a simple easy straight forward image of a few days ago being loaded would be a most more desirable option. yep, that is the particular tree I am trying to point out -g-

To: d:oug who wrote (38984)	1/24/2004 6:44:30 AM
From: thecow	Respond to of 110652

Absolutely, sorry if I wasn't clear. What I was trying to point out was "if" you didn't receive a restore cd that could put your machine back to factory setup, you would need imaging software to be able to make backup images. The two most popular are Drive Image and Norton Ghost. In your scenario, you can wipe out what comes on your new machine and partition and install whatever you wanted. When you buy a new pc, getting a retail version of XP nowdays is rare. Restore cd's are now the norm.