XPost: alt.comp.os.windows-xp, alt.os.windows-xp, alt.windows-xp   
   From: altwindowsxp@jlilest.com   
      
   On Sun, 14 Jan 2007 05:14:56 GMT, "Nomad"    
   wrote:   
      
   :->My PC has WinXP.  Didn't get any OS CD with it (long story).  How can I make   
   :->an OS CD from the .cab files?   
   :->   
   :->Any help would be most appreciated.   
      
   As Sinner mentioned, you can't do that, but you could create an image   
   backup of your system.   
      
   This is not the same as the installation CD, but could be used to   
   restore the system the way it was when the image was made.   
      
   This would normally destroy anything done since the image was made, so   
   you should have a good working backup system for any data files.   
      
   Windows XP is trickier to do this sort of image backup with since it   
   is rather paranoid about system changes.  You might have to call   
   Microsoft to reactivate your system.   
      
   I have used Norton Ghost in the past to do system backups.  This was   
   prior to windows XP thought.  The version of Ghost that I have cannot   
   save images to NTFS partitions, which means I can't use it for my   
   systems.  The drives are too large for FAT32, which is what my version   
   needs to write to.   
      
   Ghost can be ordered at   
   http://www.symantec.com/home_homeoffice/products/overview.jsp?pc   
   d=br&pvid=ghost10   
      
   There are other programs that can do this, but I have not used them   
   myself.  So I can't tell you how well they work.   
      
   This site has information on what can trigger activation.   
   http://www.pcbuyerbeware.co.uk/ProductActivation.htm   
      
   Note that any site that talks about backing up a file with activation   
   information is out of date in this respect.  One of the updates   
   Microsoft did disabled that possibility quite some time ago.   
      
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   I hope that this helps. 8-)   
      
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