copying the recovery cds onto a dvdr?

[skanky]

would it be possible to make the recovery cds using a T42, then copying the cd recovery images and combine them onto a single dvdr to not have 7 cdrs lying around!

cheers

[MadeInJapan]

Sounds like a great idea....If someone figures this out, I'd like to know too. Problem would seem to be that after disc 1 finishes (and disc 2, 3, etc.) it has code written to insert the second, third, etc. disc. You'd have to somehow change the code so that it doesn't ask for another disc, but reads off of the DVD.

On a similar note, when I used to set up Win2000 with the 4 floppy discs (the first one being a boot disc) I tried to burn the images of the floppy discs to a mini-cd but no luck. After what was the original floppy (image now on CD), it would ask me to insert the second Floppy. It never would work for me.

[skanky]

ive not actually run through the process, yet. im basing my question to how ghost works with spanned files.

ie, you can split the ghost images onto cdrs and it will ask for the next part, but if all the files are in one place then it wont ask for the next image and automatically "read" the next part.

[Chatbox]

Here's what i do:
1. Do a clean system restore using the CDs.
2. After all the files are extracted and before you log into Windows for the first time, power off the laptop.
3. Make a Ghost image (or Driveimage image...or whatever) of that newly restored harddrive.

Using this image is going to be faster than using the multi-CDs restore, not only because you skip the CD insertion process, but also because you skip extracting multiple ZIP files (that's what happens with the restore CD). From now on, everytime you restore, the data are written directly to the drive, no more unzipping.