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<blockquote data-quote="zilexa" data-source="post: 517115" data-attributes="member: 83769">Actually I do it a little bit like that <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" />I made my own (universal) customized unattended Windows XP installer with all the software, drivers and settings and tweaks that I want. After installing that and modifying a few specific things for my htpc (and some extra software, fileserver, ftp, torrents), I cut an image.Since my unattended xp setup already takes care of most of the stuff I don't cut that many images. But I also just want 1 image with Mediaportal.So then I install Mediaportal and when MP works just as I want it to, I cut another image. Reason for this, if something does go wrong... even my girlfriend must be able to fix it by restoring the image and then continu watching tvseries or movies... she's definetely not going to figure out if there are new plugins etc. Thats something I do when I have time.Thanks for sharing your info. Since I use Acronis True Image, I now realize it can make incremental backups. So the 2nd backup wont need that much space (it's saved on a seperate &quot;Acronis Safe Zone&quot; 2,5&quot; partition at the end of my small internal hdd). So maybe I should just create the backup like this.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="zilexa, post: 517115, member: 83769"] Actually I do it a little bit like that :) I made my own (universal) customized unattended Windows XP installer with all the software, drivers and settings and tweaks that I want. After installing that and modifying a few specific things for my htpc (and some extra software, fileserver, ftp, torrents), I cut an image. Since my unattended xp setup already takes care of most of the stuff I don't cut that many images. But I also just want 1 image with Mediaportal. So then I install Mediaportal and when MP works just as I want it to, I cut another image. Reason for this, if something does go wrong... even my girlfriend must be able to fix it by restoring the image and then continu watching tvseries or movies... she's definetely not going to figure out if there are new plugins etc. Thats something I do when I have time. Thanks for sharing your info. Since I use Acronis True Image, I now realize it can make incremental backups. So the 2nd backup wont need that much space (it's saved on a seperate "Acronis Safe Zone" 2,5" partition at the end of my small internal hdd). So maybe I should just create the backup like this. [/QUOTE]

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