Microsoft Windows Vista Ultimate 64-Bit

DataVampire · 3 Feb 2007 at 02:28

hi guys i have justi have had my vista installed for a few days now, its running fine, i have a few questions i hope you can help me with.
this is my current os after moving form xp pro to Microsoft Windows Vista Ultimate 64-Bit
1) wich is the best backup solution software wise, that i can use to make a auto restore disk to dvd please, the type you use in an emerncy, you just place the dvd into the drive it installs everything to how it was including drivers and programs ?

2) when using the above method, is it possible to save the activation too, i dont plan on updating my motherboard, or majour upgrade, bar some descent ram, or in about a year a descent graphics card. so i dont have to keep activating vista ect, is this possible.many thanks
and look forward to the response.

DataVampire · 3 Feb 2007 at 23:14

does anybody have any ideas please, i want to back it all up to dvd, beofre i start to instal all my games ect.
many thanks

Cob · 3 Feb 2007 at 23:25

Acronis True Image works fine in 32bit Vista, but I'm not sure about x64. Their website may know.

And yeah it'll save the activation too.

DataVampire · 4 Feb 2007 at 00:06

Cob said:
Acronis True Image works fine in 32bit Vista, but I'm not sure about x64. Their website may know.

And yeah it'll save the activation too.

thank you very much
will look into it, btw is there a tutorial on making such an iso, for use in a restore situation.
has anybody tried the new one built into vista btw?

Gopher_By_Fende · 4 Feb 2007 at 00:13

I've used the new one in vista, i haven't restored from it yet, but i have read an article of someone who has, and it seems to be quite good. It took about 20 minutes to back up my Vista partition (about 10 gig) and it saves as a VHD file. you can also use this file to mount using virtual PC if the need takes you. You can save the backup to dvd or hard drive, and if the drive fails, you boot up using your vista disk, and it gives you an option to restore the drive using your backup. i don't know if you need to reactivate or not, but if its going back onto the same machine without any changes, it should easily reactivate over the net in seconds. You can also set up a scheduled task to backup every day/week/month, and as it works as a cumulative backup, after the first one it goes much quicker. i would definitely give this a go before buying some other software

DataVampire · 4 Feb 2007 at 00:40

DataVampire said:
thank you very much
will look into it, btw is there a tutorial on making such an iso, for use in a restore situation.
has anybody tried the new one built into vista btw?

aha they have a nice website, i have jsut been chatting to a sales rep via web chat, very nice person to, very helpful, he did indeeed confirm that arcronis home 10 does indeed function on Microsoft Windows Vista Ultimate 64-Bit, and will do what i need, the only bugbear i have not jsut wiht acronis is with some other companies is this, you pay for the above product ie, being acronis true image 10 home, if they realease a version 11 after the first 30 days purchase, you would have to pay an upgrade price, rather than get the upgrade free, you would have to purchase an "upgrade", its all to do with minor upgrades and majour upgrades, minor being a update to say for example 10.5 a majour upgrade being version 11. most people including myself would much rather pay a higher price to get "all" future upgrades free.
ah well
thank you very much for your help, hope this might also help someone else