good imaging program

[faye]

Hi,

just did a fresh install of windows and some applications.

want to find a good imaging program .. that allow me to next time just format the drive and copy everything in... (may be bootable is even better)

i want to make it to a dvd...
so which one allow me to do this?

 

[BlueWeasel]

Acronis TrueImage
Image for Windows/Image for DOS
....both are better than Ghost, IMO.

 

[faye]

How do i back up the whole Drive C now using Acronis ?
The size of my C drive is perfectly fit under a dvd-r

 

[dunkster]

Assuming you've installed Windows in a dedicated partition, you can image your windows partition to a single DVD. If not - if you're running one large partition for everything - quite a few DVDs will be required to back up everything, which is a total pain in the ass.

Cheapest reliable solution is Terabyte 'Image for DOS', bootable from floppy or CD/DVD, for $18. Byte-for-byte image verification included, and the DVD created is self-bootable.

Better solution is Terabyte 'Image for Windows' + 'Image for DOS' combo for $28. IFW is faster for creating an image, IFD is required to restore a Windows partition.

Speed comparisons for creating + verifying 4GB Windows image to DVD:
- 12 minutes for IFW.
- 18 minutes for IFD.

Hope this helps!

 

[faye]

Acronis doesn't allow me to burn DVD>

I want to make it one disk of extreme recovery disk.

Does it allow me to do so?

 

[BlueWeasel]

Originally posted by: faye
Acronis doesn't allow me to burn DVD>

I want to make it one disk of extreme recovery disk.

Does it allow me to do so?

Just save the image file to your HD and break it up into 4.37GB segments (if necessary). Then burn the image file(s) as a data DVD and you're good to go. Use Acronis to make a recovery boot CD, and that's all you need.

 

[John]

I use Ghost v9 (under $30.00) and it works fine. You also have the option of backing up to cd or dvd.