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A short update; I have tried restoring a Windows XP system partition using BootIt NG.
Once again it happened, my system Windows XP system partition and registry was hit by an evil Norton product. I should haveknown better ofcourse than loading it (Systemworks 2004) but I wanted to help a friend who had problems with the settings and so installed it to see what it looks like. The uninstall procedure left me with a barely working PC with a lot of poopie left in the system and registry.
Ok.
First I restored the system partition (the same as mentioned in the posts above, data size 2350 meg) using Ghost 2003. The procedure is well known, went flawless with Ghost run from a FAT partition at C:. Ghost got my good and working XP back in 157 seconds.
Then I deliberately messed things up once again, rebooted using my NG boot floppy. The procedure isn't guided step by step as in Ghost, for a moment I wasn't shure what image file I had choosen. The problem was solved by clicking Help and I got it. NG got my good and working XP back in 114 seconds.
The only important difference between the two applications here is that Ghost needs close to 40% more time to restore a partition this size. For a home user with a relatively small partition to restore this doesn't really matter. It might be that most people have bigger system partitions than me, then save some more time with NG - a small advantage this far.
Noted, I still haven't have to use my $25 serial number for NG.
I have a feeling that I pretty soon will have my Xandros installation messed up, I'll get back here then I tell you how things went.
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