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What program to make an image of my drive?

  • 14-03-2005 11:14pm
    #1
    Lenny
    Moderators, Music Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 9,389 Mod ✭✭✭✭


    Hi,
    Just after doing a fresh install there and doing all updates etc,
    Now what I am after is a program that will make an image of my current drive and burn it to a dvd(possibly bootable?) so if something goes wrong or too much **** on it and wana format back to the start and avoid doing all the drivers etc again.
    any suggestions?
    thanks


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  • #2
    Random
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    Norton Ghost is one that springs to mind, but I don't like many of Nortons (Symantecs) products.

    Why not try a slip-streamed XP CD customised to suit your needs?


  • #3
    Lenny
    Moderators, Music Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 9,389 Mod ✭✭✭✭Lenny


    Norton was one that came to my mind too, but I am thinking that there must be something else out there,
    I am going to have a snoop around nero think I may have seen something like this in it before


  • #4
    NotMe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,287 ✭✭✭NotMe


    Commercial: Norton Ghost

    Freeware: HDClone or Ranish Partition Manager

    Check out this guide: http://www.pcstats.com/articleview.cfm?articleid=418&page=2


  • #5
    fatherdougalmag
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,391 ✭✭✭fatherdougalmag


    PowerQuest Drive Image too (commercial).

    Recently mucked around with Knoppix live CD and found that it too had a couple of partition management/imaging utils.


  • #6
    delly
    Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 7,717 Mod ✭✭✭✭delly


    Norton is the obvious choice, but thats cause it actually works quite well. I have a bootable DVD image of the PC's that we supply to customers with all our relevant software, so when a new pc gets ordered it a simple case of sticking the disc in and an hour later it ready to go.


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  • #7
    osmethod
    Closed Accounts Posts: 244 ✭✭osmethod


    As above Drive Image from Powerquest (Now owned by Symantec) and Ghost are the obvious ones. Acronis True Image is a decent tool also.

    BartPE http://www.nu2.nu/bootcd/ is perhaps another way to go about things.

    Another http://flyakite.msfnhosting.com/

    Magic ISO also http://www.magiciso.com/tutorials/miso-create-multi-os-cd.htm

    Personally, I usually create a 2nd partition and Create an image of the system partition to it. Then I burn this image to CD.

    osmethod


  • #8
    Capt'n Midnight
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    delly wrote:
    Norton is the obvious choice, but thats cause it actually works quite well. I have a bootable DVD image of the PC's that we supply to customers with all our relevant software, so when a new pc gets ordered it a simple case of sticking the disc in and an hour later it ready to go.
    The main drawback with ghost is that unless you have a serious volume license you need a license for every PC that benefits from the software.

    partimage (bootable linux CD's) is another handy util
    if both HDD's are the same model you can also use DD (linux)

    for windows 2K / XP you can use NTBACKUP to restore a previous config over a clean install there is a microsoft doc on how to merge the HW sections of the reg if you are moving it to another PC. mentioning this because when the source HDD had bad sectors all the other utils I tried all gave up the ghost.


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