good PC backup software

[iMacMart]

Yeah I have it on a seperate partition already....

God forbid the whole drive goes pete tong....

May move it now I've said that!

 

[eXor]

Some of the above is a bit dutch to me, I'd just pop the Vista DVD in the drive, go to repair, point to the backup file (20.9gig in my case) and expect it to restore back to OS goodness?

1. WinPE CD

2. Open an elevated command prompt and type:

BCDEDIT /set {bootmgr} device boot
BCDEDIT /set {default} device boot
BCDEDIT /set {default} osdevice boot

See here for details.





3. Boot WinPE CD

4. Type:

D:\Tools\Imagex.exe /compress fast /capture C: C:\image.wim "Vista Image" /verify

D:\ = WinPE CD drive.
/capture C: = makes an image of drive C:\
c:\image.wim = name of image. Yes, you can store it on the source drive.
/compress none = no compression; faster imaging.
NOTE: Sysprep was not used. See here for details. Google what that sysprep command does.


5. Restore to a BLANK, UNFORMATTED drive.
If you want to restore to an existing, formatted partition.... just skip the diskpart stuff.