Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 30th Jun 2008 18:48 UTC, submitted by Dan Warne
Through all the Windows and Microsoft bashing on the intertubes, it's almost easy to forget that Windows does, in fact, have quite a few positive aspects as well. One of those aspects is the modularity of its installation system, which allows you to create your custom installation image of Windows - with relative ease. Sadly, Microsoft decided to keep this ability away from normal users, making it a sort of OEM tool only. Lucky for us, there's a tool called vLite/nLite which allows us to slipstream fixes, applications, and drivers into the installation image as we please. This functionality of course also made its way to the 'underground' community, who used it to produce something called TinyXP. APCMag decided to take a look at it.
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What about his thing called "restore partition" that I had heared of in relation to "Windows" - does this perform the same purpose?
Had that on a Vaio laptop. Works great until your HD dies then what do you do?! If something is going to die in a computer it'll probably be the HD. *shakes fist at Sony*. For the cost of a couple of cents of DVD this problem would "go away"... well, except the crushing feeling you get when your computer say something like "OS not found" on a black screen in white system font...