I would like to create a custom XP recovery partition. I have tried numouers to try and get this to work with no luck.
What I want is to create two partitions. one contains XP and another contains a recovery image.
The way I am doing it right now is createing two partitions then when I take a image of the machine I just place the image on the extra partition and use Imagex to apply it. I want to make it so if a user hits F11 it will boot off the other partition and start the process of loading the image.
I am open to using ghost or win PE and WIM images.
Any help on this would be great
I don't know any.... It wouldn't be out of the question to make your own.... but it won't be easy. These programs include IDE/SATA/LAN drivers into them, which is essential to their functionality. There are 2 open source options I found:
Selfimage (cached, site no longer up - courtesy of google):
http://209.85.141.104/search?q=cache:-mVVVN64gU8J:selfimage.excelcia.org/+selfimage&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=us&client=firefox-a
http://gparted.sourceforge.net/
But I would say Acronis is definitely worth the purchase price. You can give one of these a try though. Good luck!