>I have a DAT tape drive because I can back up the whole LAN while I (theoretically at least) sleep. Zip media won't hold a full install of Win98SE without having to change media. I use DDS-3 DAT and don't worry asbout changing the cartridge, and there's a great deal of data recovery information written in the DAT format.

My plan was to make an image of her hard disk once all the sw was in place and then burn that onto cd's for quick setup of her system and then would restore the data from the zip.

You can actually duplicate a win98 install by copying all the files except the swap file (won't let you) onto a new hard disk. Have done it many times for clients. No need for ghost or any of the other "special" programs for this purpose.

Do you know if the same would be possible under NT (without hpfs, just plain fat installation)?

alex