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#1 User is offline   newtech 

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Posted 15 March 2007 - 08:02 PM

I am trying to make a image of my hard drive with Vista Ultima installed and everything I have added since then, and want to burn it to a dvd so if it crashes I can reload it, I have tried reading some of the posts but they are out of my realm of understanding at the stage I am at:

Any easy to understand instructions would be greatly appreciated.

I have downloaded OSCDIMAGE and VLITE :wacko:


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Posted 18 March 2007 - 10:01 AM

Is it possible to do what I am asking? I do not want to do a unattended install, just a safe gard if something goes wrong

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Posted 18 March 2007 - 01:08 PM

Get either Acronis True Image or Norton Ghost and create an image of your partition which you can later burn onto a DVD or save onto an external HDD.

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Posted 18 March 2007 - 10:37 PM

Perhaps you may want to look at the recovery image option within your version of Vista as mentioned here.

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Posted 21 March 2007 - 12:46 AM

newtech,

Use MS's imagex program to capture an image of your hard drive. This will create a .wim image file. Once captured, you can place the image on a DVD, network share, etc. You can then use imagex at a later date to /apply the image back to the device.

The oscdimg tool you mentioned is used to create bootable iso files that can be burnt onto a DVD or CD.

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Posted 22 March 2007 - 11:41 PM

View Postshawn1024, on Mar 21 2007, 04:16 PM, said:

Use MS's imagex program to capture an image of your hard drive. This will create a .wim image file. Once captured, you can place the image on a DVD, network share, etc. You can then use imagex at a later date to /apply the image back to the device.

The oscdimg tool you mentioned is used to create bootable iso files that can be burnt onto a DVD or CD.


This is the best method,

Norton Ghost does not like VISTA I have found and I have not tried Acronis. An imagex capture of a sysprepped image that has been genralised and then backing it up to a network share or using the oscdimg tool is the MS preffered methods of doing this.

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Posted 23 March 2007 - 12:30 PM

whats difference between capturing harddrive using imagex and using acronis? I use acronis but its only copy of a installed vista, what benefits imagex has?

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