Chapter 12: Major OS Architectures

Labs you will perform in this chapter:

• Lab 12.1: Creating an Emergency Repair Disk

• Lab 12.2: Creating an Automated System Recovery Disk

One of the worst disasters that can happen to your system is for your system configuration information to become corrupted or lost. We are used to backing up our data files, but we frequently overlook the system configuration information. Trying to duplicate the configuration is a very time consuming task, so Microsoft has built in a way to copy the key configuration information. In Windows 2000 we use the Emergency Repair Disk, and in Windows XP we use an updated version called Automated System Recovery Disk.

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For more information, see Chapter 13 of David Groth’s A+ Complete Study Guide (Sybex, 2003).