Creating a Windows XP Recovery Kit

Finding your Windows XP operating system damaged can be a painful experience. We will not be able to do our daily activities with the computer anymore before finding the way to recover it. If you understand Windows XP, you can follow the detail to perform certain task that will allow recovering from any Windows XP failure no matter how bad it is.There are two possibilities of the problem location in the Windows XP troubleshooting. It may be with Windows XP or may be with the hardware problem.



The best way to recover from it is by having an XP Recovery Kit that will enable you to get your computer up and running in minutes rather than hours. This kit consists of the back up of your entire hard drive. You need disk imaging utility such as Drive Image by Powerquest and a backup medium such as a CD Rom writer, a DVD writer or a second hard drive to create your own Windows XP recovering Kit. The procedures you can perform to create a Windows XP recovering Kit is by using a recordable medium and using a second hard drive. Those procedures can also be used to create other version of hard ware. Creating your recovery kit will require time, but after that you can get any system running again immediately just as if nothing went wrong. The first step you need to take is making sure your CD or DVD writer is functioning properly and then install and run Drive Image. After running your imaging software, follow the instruction to create an image of drive C. You can choose CD Rom, DVD or second hard drive to perform the image.The back up utility are available at the Windows XP but the Windows XP home edition will have to install it from the CD Rom. You can install it by opening the contents of the CD Rom and install the back up utility. The Windows XP utility will not record to CD Rom or DVDs but will only save the back up as a file, so it’s best to use Drive Image or compatible software. So now, if you find your Windows XP freeze up and fail to load, just reboot the computer and access your BIOS to let it know which medium to boot from. Take the time to make an image of your hard drive and be prepared for any failure in your Windows XP.