Products such as Image for Windows/Image for Linux will let you create 
an image of your disk on CD/DVD/Network Drive. If your drive crashes 
or just gets really trashed with a virus you can do a "bare metal 
restore" to a new drive. No reinstallation needed for Windows, Linux, 
or any of your applications.

<http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/index.htm>

The software is not free but it is reasonably priced. Especially when 
compared to sitting and feeding install disks to a PC and rebooting it 
many times is the option.

I have relegated an old PC to being a file server for our two 
computers. 500GB, 750GB, and even 1 TeraByte drives are pretty cheap 
these days. There isn't really a good reason to not have disk images 
and backups of anything that's worth much of your time.

Tim, N9PUZ

Toby Burnett wrote:
> 
> I also would be interested as to booting windoze from a memory stick 
> like a live cd of Linux.
>  
> It takes so long for me to re install everything should I have a system 
> wide crash.  Just to get back back onto win XP pro I have to load XP 
> home first and then all of XP Pro.  With that and all the driver disks 
> etc and whatever else you loose in the process it can take a good day at 
> least just to get back to a blank windoze system with everything 
> working.  My Laptop which I just got (Vista)  gave the option to make a 
> recovery disk set (4 DVD's!!!!!) which took the best part of 4 - 5 hours 
> to create. That's a lot of data even for a memory stick and I dread the 
> day I have to use them. 
>  

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