Creating HD Images - How do YOU do it?

[darkenedsoul]

Originally posted by: stingygrrl

Originally posted by: darkenedsoul
I dumped Ghost 9.0 due to it not playing nicely with McAphee Antivirus....

Mcafee is generally thought to be the worst AV suite, right behind Norton. Look for Kaspersky free after rebate- it's around quite a bit, and I'd expect some deals for Black Friday.

Also, you guys do know that if you have a seagate or maxtor drive, even external, you can run Seagate Diskwizard free (= Acronis 10)

There's AVG free that isn't bad and one other who's name slips my mind, you have to register it...Ahoy! I think is the name of that one. Used to use it waaaaaaaay back, then went with Norton for a long time then dumped it and switched to AVG then McAphee since it's free from Comcast and has firewall, av, etc...in one package. A bit of bloatware like all of them. Maybe I will switch back to AVG but since it's installed and not causing any issues I'll probably stick with McAphee. I don't hit risky sites for the most part as it is and I am picky with what I pull off the net (usually utils/tools as needed).

 

[Navid]

Acronis 10 let's you create a boot CD or boot flash drive.
You can boot to either and create an image of your hard drive partition and save the image on another partition or drive.

Edit:
Shouldn't this thread be in the software forum?

 

[SolMiester]

Originally posted by: Balwyn
My main OS is win XP on an Nvidia Nforce 3 based RAID 0+1 HD array.

I image and restore this OS by running Acronis 8 from a CD under Bart PE (similar to windows PE) and dump the RAID image to an external USB drive. I prefer to do this way rather than running acronis from the main OS directly as I am guaranteed that no XP files are in use at the time of the image.

I also tried using the Acronis Linux based CD method and this would have been successful except that no Nforce 3 raid drivers were available for linux, hence the Bart PE route.
Bart PE lets you run whatever XP drivers you want.

Been using this method for at least 2 years with no issues

Same method here!

 

[itakey]

Originally posted by: Navid
Acronis 10 let's you create a boot CD or boot flash drive.
You can boot to either and create an image of your hard drive partition and save the image on another partition or drive.

Edit:
Shouldn't this thread be in the software forum?

Didn't even think of this. I always thought the boot cd was to restore, but I didn't know it also allows the ability to create images of drives.

Where could I get the Bart PE Acronis plug in if I wanted to build a PE Disk with the free version of Acronis 10 that comes with HD's??

 

[darkenedsoul]

Originally posted by: itakey

Originally posted by: Navid
Acronis 10 let's you create a boot CD or boot flash drive.
You can boot to either and create an image of your hard drive partition and save the image on another partition or drive.

Edit:
Shouldn't this thread be in the software forum?

Didn't even think of this. I always thought the boot cd was to restore, but I didn't know it also allows the ability to create images of drives.

Where could I get the Bart PE Acronis plug in if I wanted to build a PE Disk with the free version of Acronis 10 that comes with HD's??

I would think at Acronis' website there should be a link to it. And probably the manual has a pointer to some links in it.

 

[Navid]

Originally posted by: itakey

Originally posted by: Navid
Acronis 10 let's you create a boot CD or boot flash drive.
You can boot to either and create an image of your hard drive partition and save the image on another partition or drive.

Edit:
Shouldn't this thread be in the software forum?

Didn't even think of this. I always thought the boot cd was to restore, but I didn't know it also allows the ability to create images of drives.

Where could I get the Bart PE Acronis plug in if I wanted to build a PE Disk with the free version of Acronis 10 that comes with HD's??

I have been imaging my OS partition for over 5 years on a regular basis.
Never used Bart PE for that.
Even Drive Image (PowerQuest), what I used at first, had a boot CD.
The free version of True Image has a boot CD too.

Correction:
Drive Image did not have a boot CD!
It had a boot floppy. I used it to create my own DI boot CD.