Folks,
I have just rebuilt my stystem and all is well. My vendor went out of business, but now I feel confidant that I can do certain things on my own. My hightest priority is making a bootable disk. Can someone give me some SIMPLE, easy to follow instructions on how to do this. The last guy sent me to a web page that just confused me. There has to be a simple, idiot proof way . . . 
THANKS.
if you tell us what operatiing system you use, we might be able to help you. Is it a Mac? if so which one? If a PC, is it Windows 98, ME, 2000, NT, or XP?
It is an XP system. I would think that it would be simple but . . . I’m a bit laaaaazzzzy.
It doesn’t seem simple because I don’t think you can accomplish what you’re trying to accomplish. Not directly, at least.
There are numerous ways to boot into an environment that would let you affect certain system parameters(to recover data or reinstall from crash for example) and there is no “The Recovery Disk” you can make. Backing up System Restore information from XP is one thing, making partition and bootsector backup/restore floppies is another, rolling your drivers into a “Live CD” is yet third.
If you could be more specific as to what you expect to accomplish with such a bootable disk, we could probably be a lot more helpful.
Yes, now you are talking. I simply want to get back to where I was before the “unfortunate event” happen. And have a nice warm feeling that what I am doing got rid of the annonance. That said, I would like to be able to get my bare bones system back up and running (video, soundcard, removable disk, AND my ipod ACC files) to the state they were in prior to the “unforutnate event”. ACC files are my bitch, they do not want to reinstall. I got my pics backed up, don’t care about saved pass words, but ACC files (and Symantic files) suck. So I guess that more desribes my problem.
Any help out there? THANKS
XP has a feature that permits you to do a system restore to a point in time prior to the "unfortunate event.
**Click on: Start, All Progreams, Accessories, System Tools, System Restore.
**QED
Basically you want to make a list of all the hardware on your system, download the drivers, unpack them if they are compressed(zip, etc.) and put them on a CD called “Driver CD”. Then you want to backup your “Documents and Settings” folder, as well as any other data and put it on a “Data CD”. Then copy the “System Volume Information” folder onto a third CD and call that “System Restore” CD. These ones along with a bootable XP installation disk should allow you to recover from most types of errors. You might also want to consider purchasing a bootable antivirus CD such as Norton.
Hope this helps.