Thank you for your help. I have used the network bootdisc from http://www.nu2.nu/bootdisk/ and successfully backuped the hpa to a network share. 1. But what exactly is doing the FWRESTORE program when I want to reinstall to an empty hard drive? 2. I've mounted just for fun the data partition 0x8888 ...

I have problems to create an image of the predesktop area, as described in the white paper. http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/MIGR-46023.html I copied the files fwbackup and fwrestore to the IBM_SERVICE partition, rebooted into WINXP and opened a command prompt. After typing in the command ...