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Cloning Help

  • 05-04-2006 3:31pm
    #1
    h0stn0tf0und
    Closed Accounts Posts: 155 ✭✭


    I am looking for some advice regarding cloning drives. What I would like to do is the following:

    Install the OS, updates, drives etc and then make an image and store it on a DVD.
    Restore from DVD when *problems* occur.

    I have used some free applications such as DrvImagerXP to do this and it has worked but I am having problems with it. Problems such as compression, it does not seem to work (crashing / hanging). And say for example its a 80GB disk I am trying to image I will never get it on a DVD even though the OS is only using about 2.5GB of space. The image is the full 80GB.

    I have several PC's and would like to have one PC where I just connect the HDD and image it, and the place it back in the machine, I dont want to have to install the software on each machine. I am looking for a product that can do the above.

    I am looking at Norton Ghost 10 and Acronis True Image 9.0, any advice on these products? Is there a freeware product that I've missed? Am I using DrvImagerXP coorrectly!?

    Thanks


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  • #2
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 92,385 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    not quite what you want but have a look at a slipstream install or BartPE


  • #3
    h0stn0tf0und
    Closed Accounts Posts: 155 ✭✭h0stn0tf0und


    @ Capt'n

    This is what i have been doing:
    Install the OS, applications etc...
    Boot from a UBCD4Win CD, run DrvImagerXP and image the drive over a network or to an external drive. I then have an image of my new install.

    However, say for example I install on a 20GB disk then the image DrvImagerXP creates is the full size of the disk, it images the free space. Even at 20gb I would need a hell of a lot of space to create images and they wont fit on optical media. On average the space taken up by my install is about 3.5 gigs, the rest of the 20 is free space. I would assume compression is the solution but I have never been able to get DrvImager to do this successfully.

    Am I correct in assuming the following:
    Example: 80gb disk / ~ 77gb Free
    OS / apps install: 3gb
    Image created by Norton Ghost: ~3gb

    When image is applied to the disk it *fills* out to the size of the disk?

    I am new to imaging so apologies for any confusing questions.


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