[WEB4LIB] CD emergency disk?

[Isabel Danforth]

Our new Gateway PC's all come with such a CD. They are already setup to
boot from the CD drive rather than floppy drive.

Isabel

At 02:46 PM 01/19/2000 -0800, Gary E. Masters wrote:
>I have been thinking about this for some time now, but have no firm 
>conclusions.  Is it possible to write a CD with files from a computer that 
>will allow one to boot from the CD and restore all of its operating system 
>(Windows of one flavor or the other)?  Has anyone done it?  I know some 
>computers come with an "emergency" CD, but we use Dell units and they 
>don't.  We do have a CD write drive and Easy CD Creator 4.
>
>Thanks,
>
>Gary Masters
>
>
>
>Gary E. Masters
>Automated Services Librarian
>(956) 326-2137 (office)
>(956)326-2399 
>(fax)
>
>
>
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