Unfortunately each and every manufacturer (and sometimes different models of the same manufacturer) use different approaches to create (and restore) recovery data.
You can use Winimage allright to view what is inside the various .IMZ files, provided that they are actually compressed RAW images, but I do not think that without LOTS of knowledge about DOS and Windows 2K setup/files it will ...
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Started 1 year, 8 months ago by b1rdd0g
I have an old PC that I intend to scrub the hard drive and then reinstall with the IBM Product Recovery CD (Windows 2000) that I got with the machine. However, I have been unable to get the recover.exe program to run from the CD. It always errors out with "NLS ID NOT FOUND". I have no idea how to fix/circumvent this error, nevertheless, I still have the CDs which have the following in the ...
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jaclaz replied 1 year, 8 months ago
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b1rdd0g replied 1 year, 8 months ago
Thanks for the info, jclaz! You've provided some really good hints. Let me ask a few questions in the categories in which you cast your assumptions:
1) I would assume that the boot sector would need to get copied to the C:\ drive at some point in the restore process, right?
2) There was actually a boot diskette image (1.44MB) included in the root directory of the Product Recovery CD. I ...
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jaclaz replied 1 year, 8 months ago
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1) I would assume that the boot sector would need to get copied to the C:\ drive at some point in the restore process, right?
Yes, though from the overall procedure it might well be a MBR, instead of a bootsector.
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b1rdd0g replied 1 year, 8 months ago
OK, it's late and I'm getting really really sleepy, but I want to ask some additional questions before I crash:
1) What is the image type of the file CP30AUS.IMD? I'm thinking this is a disk image file of some sort. Perhaps this file organizes all the many *.IMZ files into a contiguous whole during the restore?
2) I've been trying to deciper the pqer.exe program, but I can't quite seem to ...
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jaclaz replied 1 year, 8 months ago
I have no idea about what the .IMD file can be.
If the image has been password proteected, according to the guide I linked to, it has to be passed to command line by a /PWD command.
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If the image file was password-protected when created in Drive Image Pro, the user is
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