windows drive image software? burn to dvds ?

Gavin · 5 Jul 2006 at 22:01

Ive just spend the last day installing drivers and tweaking the system, im now installing the basics like winzip, av software etc and im allready at 5.5 gb

Is there any software out there that i can just use to make an image some how and burn to dvd so if i buy a new hard drive for example i can just boot from a dvd and reinstall my images?

Sort of like a home made system restore disk i suppose?

Cheers guys

Sputnik II · 5 Jul 2006 at 22:51

Acronis true image 9.

Gavin · 5 Jul 2006 at 22:56

Thanks will look into buying it if its any good and does what i want.

Is it what you use?

Edit looks ideal

http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing/products/trueimage/

bledd · 6 Jul 2006 at 00:40

norton ghost can do what you're asking too

(i usually hate symantec software, but ghost is pretty good)

Sputnik II · 6 Jul 2006 at 08:48

Gavin said:
Is it what you use?

I've tried quite a few makes of backup/recovery software not limited to but, including Norton Ghost,Powerquest V2i and Dantz retrospect.
My personal favourite is True Image, Its fast, easy to use, reliable and allows you to easily restore a single file from an image if you need to.

Gavin · 6 Jul 2006 at 08:54

Sputnik II said:
I've tried quite a few makes of backup/recovery software not limited to but, including Norton Ghost,Powerquest V2i and Dantz retrospect.
My personal favourite is True Image, Its fast, easy to use, reliable and allows you to easily restore a single file from an image if you need to.

Thanks im gonna give that a wirl

Gavin · 11 Jul 2006 at 09:25

Gavin said:
Thanks im gonna give that a wirl

Right ive started the backup process, can one just ask how you restore it>? Just so i know in the future?

I may just find a old hard drive and see if i can install it on there to be safe!

Simmy · 11 Jul 2006 at 09:43

Check the image after you've made it to make sure it's ok. I tried to restore an image without checking it first, which turned out to be invalid and I lost everything

There should be an option in acronis called "Acronis Startup Recovery Manager". This makes a bootable partition to load acronis before windows if you press F11 during startup. Or you can boot from the acronis CD.

Sputnik II · 11 Jul 2006 at 09:49

Gavin said:
Right ive started the backup process, can one just ask how you restore it>? Just so i know in the future?

I may just find a old hard drive and see if i can install it on there to be safe!

Burn a boot disk using True Image using the 'Create rescue media' I think they call it. This will enable you to recover the system even if windows or true image wont start due to say complete hard drive failure etc.
The safest place to store the Image is either an external or seperate hard drive from the one your making an image of or, Burn it onto DVD. The latest version of TI will allow you to burn direct to DVD.

Gavin · 11 Jul 2006 at 10:05

Sputnik II said:
Burn a boot disk using True Image using the 'Create rescue media' I think they call it. This will enable you to recover the system even if windows or true image wont start due to say complete hard drive failure etc.
The safest place to store the Image is either an external or seperate hard drive from the one your making an image of or, Burn it onto DVD. The latest version of TI will allow you to burn direct to DVD.

So i need to burn a boot disk and a set of dvds to cover my os install?

Im using Ritek G05's but keep getting errors when checking, ive never had any coasters before with this media, any ideas?

Sputnik II · 11 Jul 2006 at 10:51

Gavin said:
So i need to burn a boot disk and a set of dvds to cover my os install?

I'd recommend that you burn a rescue boot disk (CD). The image can be stored on a hard drive or DVD's. My OS hard drive has 8GB on it and the image fits comfortably on a single DVD-r.

Gavin said:
Im using Ritek G05's but keep getting errors when checking, ive never had any coasters before with this media, any ideas?

Are you using version 9 rev 3677 ?

Gavin · 11 Jul 2006 at 10:57

Sputnik II said:
I'd recommend that you burn a rescue boot disk (CD). The image can be stored on a hard drive or DVD's. My OS hard drive has 8GB on it and the image fits comfortably on a single DVD-r.

Are you using version 9 rev 3677 ?

Version 9 rev 3666

Im gonna try again for the third time!

Oh and thanks