Reimaging Windows XP Home

[shankle]

The person I am helping has no backup of his OS or a Windows XP Home CD.
I ran across a program that claims to put Windows XP Home back to it's original condition.
   www.regimage.com - It costs $65 to run it once. Hate to recommend it to anyone
with only the knowledge gained from the internet.

Other solutions are using my Windows XP Pro CD to do a repair of his OS.
Using my Windows XP Pro CD to install over his OS. Don't like this solution.

If you have any knowledge of "Reimage", I certainly would thanks you for some insight.

[bruce1948]

Hi Shankle

Firstly I think the website sould be www.reimage.com.  The link you give is for a franch mutimedia site. I have no experience with this package and having looked at the site probably never will. They don't seem to offer a great deal of help if the fix doesn't work. What exactly is the problem your friend is having I have helped a few people with no OS cd in the past and may be able to offer some help.

Bruce

[dedndave]

For $65, i think you can buy XP pro on e-bay - lol

[shankle]

Thanks guys for replying.
Yes, I spelled the site incorrectly. SB www.reimage.com
About 4 minutes to boot up.
Plagued with a Rundll error.
Can't initialize the external drive he just bought. It seems to freeze the puter.
Supposed to be plug and play and is for Windows XP.
I installed Firefox and that stopped the IE hassle.
Sometimes the mouse freezes. Tried unplugging the mouse and rebooting.
The next day it works fine.
So it sounds like I should stay away from "Reimage". If nobody has actual experience with it it is too risky.

As far as Windows XP Home on Ebay. I wonder if they are legitimate versions or?

One of my options is to uninstall everything on his puter except Windows and rebuild the programs that he needs.
Of course if Windows is corrupt other measures are in order.

[dedndave]

XP Pro - and they are legit (illegal copies are typically $0)
try to avoid XP Home

[BlackVortex]

Install XP over the current one.   :U

[sinsi]

As long as they have an XP serial number any XP Home CD will work - it's the number you pay for, not the CD.

[Vortex]

You could run imagex.exe, a file based imaging tool from a BartPE \ VistaPE CD to backup your windows installation :

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imagex.exe /capture C: /compress maximum D:\XPhomeBackup.wim "xp_backup"

Imagex.exe comes with the Automated Installation Kit (AIK) for Windows Vista SP1 and Windows Server 2008

Another free alternative is DriveImage XML

[bruce1948]

I'd go for installing XP over the current one.