Imaging a drive

ramdor · 18 May 2007 at 11:54

Anyone recommend some drive imaging software. Specifically I am looking for something that will take an image of XP pro, crush it down, and stick it onto a bootable dvd than can be used as a restore disk.

Cheers,

Richie.

jbloggs · 18 May 2007 at 12:18

Acronis True Image 10, this will take a Backup image, compress it, so you can store the actual image elsewhere (another part/HDD, or burn to DVD), ATI 10 also lets you make a bootable CD, to run in DOS, so you can run the actual program to restore Backup image on another partition/HDD.

michael baxter · 18 May 2007 at 12:23

Acronis TrueImage here too! You can get a few trial from their website.

Voo · 18 May 2007 at 13:45

I also recommend using Acronis having used it in a corporate environment.

ramdor · 18 May 2007 at 16:02

Cheers for the info. I used Acronis. I created a backup of a fresh nvidia raid striped array, wrote it onto a dvd. Created a boot cd with acronis. Then recovered the backup onto an nvidia array, but this time a mirror. Used the resize partition options. Damn impressive.

Richie.

waso_dude · 18 May 2007 at 17:25

I was just going to post asking about this,

as i've only used SMS

cheers guys!

Just downloading now

swinnie · 18 May 2007 at 22:50

I found out this the otherday: http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/2005/09/09/windows_in_your_pocket/

If I was to create an image I would use Bart PE personally but I would also recommend Acronis True Image. Even if you want to use it long term i think you can get it from like 30quid...not bad software!

ramdor · 18 May 2007 at 22:54

This software is sweet I have to say. Takes like 12 mins or so to restore an xp install + drivers + few oc'ing utils. Saves a load of hasstle.

Richie.