First post, by MichaelWeaser
I am wondering if Restore partition ever existed in the DOS / Windows 3.1x / 9x era of computers? I have known since windows xp and possibly windows 2000 some companies that sold computers, had a restore partition on the computer that you could reinstall the OS without the CD, But I don't know that if it ever existed with DOS/ Win 3.1x/9x computers, since I know that most computers with those OS's came with install disks.
I want to create something like a restore partition for my older computers. I am thinking of doing something like this . but not sure if it's possible to do. Have a beginning partition that is hidden and also would be the "restore" partition that has maybe DOS installed with a image , and with a dos program to reimage the C partition with the drive image, the way the restore partition would be invoked would be maybe with a custom boot loader , that you would press some key before the operating system would load , that would temporarily unhide the recovery partition to reinstall the OS, or also if the C drive isn't bootable or C drive erased and formatted it would evoke it automatically to reinstall the OS from a image on the recovery partition. I don't know how I would get this to work or if possible at all, maybe someone on here could help me with this.