Jason: There is not an accessible windows boot cd as far as I'm aware. What you could do though is just dd your partitions and pipe t hat through to bzip2. It's moderately slow, but you could store it on a nas/passport drive/etc and be set. HTH, On 5/26/2013 12:23 PM, Kirk Reiser wrote: > I can't answer your question about recovery images for Windows, but > grml is a good general purpose rescue image. It will handle either > software synths such as espeakup which is part of the system or serial > synths. > > Check it out at www.grml.org. > > On Sun, 26 May 2013, Jayson Smith wrote: > >> A bit off-topic here, but somewhat related to Linux. >> >> For several years, I've been using Image for Windows/Linux as my >> Windows backup/restore solution. I liked it because, in case of total >> boot drive failure where the system was completely unbootable, I >> could boot up Image for Linux which includes Speakup, use my DECtalk >> Express, and restore. Now, though, I've upgraded to Windows 7, and my >> computer has exactly zero serial ports. So I can't use my old boot CD >> any more, unless it would work with a USB to serial convertor. >> >> What do you recommend for a bootable, accessible backup and restore >> solution? Does whatever you recommend use software speech? I don't >> assume anyone's come up with an accessible bootable Windows CD? Does >> such a bootable CD work with USB sound devices? Also, in all our >> computers, there's an internal sound card we're not actively using in >> Windows. Would any Linux CD try to use that first? >> Thanks for any thoughts! >> Jayson >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Speakup mailing list >> Speakup at linux-speakup.org >> http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup >> > -- Take care, Ty http://tds-solutions.net The aspen project: a barebones light-weight mud engine: http://code.google.com/p/aspenmud He that will not reason is a bigot; he that cannot reason is a fool; he that dares not reason is a slave.
