ghosting

[Becker, Rob]

Depending on how you've set up her machine, you may be able to use ghost to create an image of the 
system partition on a separate partition on the drive.  I would suggest setting the system up with 
at least a system and a data partition anyway.  Then you can set up at least some critical 
applications (Office, IE) to dump files onto that partition.  This makes it pretty easy to restore 
ghosted system partition and still preserve all those papers and such.  So, I would suggest you 
fdisk the drive with two partitions, one for system stuff (windows, programs, etc) and one for 
data.  Install your basic build with the necessary bare bones apps.  And then, if the data 
partition is large enough, you should be able to then use ghost to create an image of your system 
drive on the data partition.  From there you should be able to create a cd with the image on it 
using whatever burning software you desire.  Another option is to stick a second drive into the 
system to create the image of!
 your system partition on and then copy the image from that drive to a cd.  With a little boot disk 
and bootable cd magic you should be able to create a great little emergency restore disk.
Good luck, let us know how it goes.
Thanks.
Rob