TI8 uses a LINUX environment to boot, so you won't see too much from
windows, but you certainly should see a directory structure with some files,
such as the following at the root of your CD drive (mine is P:

Directory of P:\

11/13/2005 04:07 PM <DIR> Recovery Manager
11/13/2005 04:07 PM 5,802 readme.txt
1 File(s) 5,802 bytes
1 Dir(s) 0 bytes free

If you go inside of the Recovery Manager directory, you should see something
like:

Directory of P:\Recovery Manager

11/13/2005 04:07 PM <DIR> .
11/13/2005 04:07 PM <DIR> ..
11/13/2005 04:07 PM 1,095,216 bootmenu.exe
11/13/2005 04:07 PM 22,528 bootwiz.sys
11/13/2005 04:07 PM 198 f11.cfg
11/13/2005 04:07 PM 649,275 kernel.dat
11/13/2005 04:07 PM 4,850 mouse.com
11/13/2005 04:07 PM 8,808,476 ramdisk.dat
6 File(s) 10,580,543 bytes
2 Dir(s) 0 bytes free

However, the best way to be sure that you have a good recovery CD is to
insert the CD and reboot the PC. Assuming that the PC is set to boot from
CD before hard drive, the TI logo should soon appear. The interface will
look a lot like the interface you see for TI8 within windows, but with fewer
options. It is safe to explore a few steps down the "create image" or the
"restore image" paths. Be sure that TI8 displays all hard drives. This
test is particularly important if you have serial ATA hard drives, since
early version of TI8 did not support all SATA drives. If you can "see" the
drive(s), then the odds of being able to restore a valid image are near
100%. If you can not see the hard drive(s), then you need to get a later
build of TI8. Note that you can safely cancel the create/restore operation
until after it asks if you want to procede with the operation and you click
yes.

As for where you store the image, or set of image files, I prefer an
external USB hard drive, because it is fast. Infrequently, I copy the
images to DVDs. One could argue that CDs or DVDs are safer, since they are
imune to magnetic fields or power surges. But, in practice, many people
have had problems with CDs or DVDs. If you use optical media for the
images, be sure to verify them. TI8 has an option to verify images, but
does not do that by default.

Finally, the latest version of TI8 is build 937. I have personally had good
luck with that, although several earlier build also worked on my PC.


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