RogerS Posted December 15, 2004 Report Share Posted December 15, 2004 I just received my "Retropect 6.5" and installed it on my XP-Pro machine. I have a Dell work station (WS530 smp)w/1gig ram and 3 100 gig SCSI hard drives. I'm using Roxio CD Creator 5.5xxx Platinum x.x.10r. I went back 6 months into previous posts on this subject. Except for suggestions calling for abandoning the disaster recovery CD concept, the issue seems to have dried-up on the vine/post! OK; My system recognizes 700mb CD-Rs. The .iso image file created using the DR wizard creates an 823 mb. file. I am following the "Burning a CD using "Easy CD Creator 5.5 platnum" detailed in the "Read-me" file accompanying the Retrospect software installation. I am opening a new project and navigating to the ISO file. I am creating a CD USING the ISO file and not copying the iso file to CD. The CD Creator program ejects the blank CD moments after the project starts to burn the disc with a message box stating that the CD has insufficient space to burn the project! Geez, what a way to start a new relationship! When creating the DR using the wizard, I pointed the wizard to the ".sif" file on my hard drive I386 folder. I notice that I have a 300 Mb pagefile.sys in my root folder... Is the Dr wizard smart enough not to grab this file? Or is the "Disaster Recovery CD" concept a "DISASTER" without recovery...? Watching and waiting! "Tweak it till it breaks" then use the DR CD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
natew Posted December 16, 2004 Report Share Posted December 16, 2004 Hi Make sure to install the latest version of Retrospect 6.5.350 from the Dantz Website. The version you got on CD may not be up to date. Be sure to use the i386 folder on your install CD and _not_ the one on the hard drive when you make the DR disk. Thanks Nate Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RogerS Posted December 18, 2004 Author Report Share Posted December 18, 2004 Hi Nate: >Make sure to install the latest version of Retrospect 6.5.350 from the Dantz Website. >The version you got on CD may not be up to date. I do have the latest Ver. 6.5.350, but not the driver. So that's been taken care of. >Be sure to use the i386 folder on your install CD and _not_ the one on the hard drive >when you make the DR disk. I recreated the Image file using my XP-Pro recovery disk. This time the image was 620 Mb. and the DR. CD created just fine! Another great fix! Thank You Nate!! I suspect that when I update the DR, there will be appended files to the CD? or do I create a new DR-CD? If the snapshot is modified, I assume another snapshot is written to the existing DR-CD? (space permitting) A couple more questions come to mind: The DR-CD finalized... Isn't that it for that CD? If I create the DR-CD and don't finalize it, is it useable? How can I test my DR-CD? I read that when it boots, recovery is automatic! The last thing I want to do is a restore from this level just for a test!!! It'd bad enough should the real thing happen... DR is better than a scratch restore. Another issue: SP2. I have the CD. I've read other posts on this issue... It doesn't sound like much fun. If I restore enough to restore to the CD snapshot, and it incorporates SP2, is that not a successful restore?, or is there a version incompatibility issue? I haven't upgraded to SP2 yet, (Waiting for Retro). Now it's time. Thanks Again Nate... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
natew Posted December 21, 2004 Report Share Posted December 21, 2004 Hi The DR CD does not contain any of your data. It is an automated Windows and Retrospect installer that will set up the machine in a very basic state. Once the machine is running you can use Retrospect to restore from your backup. You only need to update the DR CD if you add new hardware to the machine or if you update to a new service pack. Best to read this if you are considering SP2: http://kb.dantz.com/article.asp?article=1109&p=2 Thanks Nate Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ecrm Posted December 21, 2004 Report Share Posted December 21, 2004 The kb article http://kb.dantz.com/article.asp?article=1109&p=2 links to the winsupersite http://www.winsupersite.com/showcase/windowsxp_sp2_slipstream.asp which discusses the creation of XP (SP2) CD... does DR need the XP CD to be bootable or can we skip that set of instructions and simply use the integrated set of files? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
natew Posted December 22, 2004 Report Share Posted December 22, 2004 Hi I think it needs to be bootable... Nate Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RogerS Posted December 22, 2004 Author Report Share Posted December 22, 2004 I'm in the process of printing the "Slipstreaming" article then creating a bootable XP + SP2 CD... Thanks Again!! RS9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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