CST Drive Imaging Boot Disk

This disk will image or re-image your hard disk. Once the imaging has begun, it cannot be stopped without rendering your drive useless. DO NOT USE IT ON ANY DRIVE OTHER THAN YOUR CADDIE. READ THE DIRECTIONS THROUGH COMPLETELY BEFORE BEGINNING AND FOLLOW THEM CARFULLY. FAILURE TO DO SO COULD RESULT IN UNINTENTIONALLY REIMAGING YOUR HDD.

Imaging your drive

After creating your boot disk, insert it in the CDROM of the system containing the hard drive that you wish to image. Once the system boots, you will see two menus...

Menu 1

The 1st menu is where you select the lab you are in while imaging the hard disk. Carefully select the correct lab. If you select the wrong one, the imaging will not work.

MENU 2

A. "Re-image your whole drive": This option will completely re-image your hard disk. ALL DATA FROM ALL PARTITIONS WILL BE LOST. Your drive will have 2 partitions. The 1st will be about 20Gb in size and have Windows XP Pro installed with VmWare. The second partition will use the rest of your drive and be set up to be your VmWare and data partition. The SID and computer name will also be changed to new random names.

B. "Re-image only the O/S Partition": This option will re-image ONLY THE 1ST PARTTION leaving any other partition(s) alone. Use this option when you need to recover your O/S partition without overwriting the others. Unless there is some unforeseen complication, your data (including virtual machines) will be left intact. This should be a last resort! Accidents can happen! The SID and computer name will also be changed to new random names.

C. "Rename Only": This option does not re-image any partitions. It only changes the SID and computer name to randomly generated ones.

D. "Abort": As the the name says, this will abort all operations. Simply remove the disk and reboot afterward. Nothing will be changed.

NOTES:

1. You are responsible to ensure that you have some sort of Anti-Virus and Anti-Spyware protection on your drive as well as all Windows Updates. This must be done after any re-imaging.

Bootable CD Instructions:

This is just an image. It must be extracted to a blank CD prior to use. Just copying it to the CD will not work.

FROM THE COMPUTER ACCESS CENTER ON THE 2ND FLOOR OF T BUILDING

1. Log onto one of the access center PC's using your Algonquin username and password.

2. Insert your blank CD into the CDROM drive

3. Download the following file to your desktop: LAB BOOT DISK IMAGE

4. Double click the file you just downloaded (Lab_boot_disk.ISO)

5. A dialog box will open stating that "Windows cannot open this file"
- Click the "Select the program from a list" radio button
- Click "OK"
- Click "Browse"
- Open the "Ahead" directory
- Open the "Nero" directory
- Double click "nero.exe"

6. When Nero starts, click "next"
- The CD should start burning and take about 30 seconds to finish
- click "next" and close Nero.

You now have your lab boot CD.