How do I make an image??

[enon8727]

Hey, so I got an older pentium 4 HP Vectra from work for free that I'm gonna use a machine just to mess around on and stuff so I have it the way I want it now and I wanna make an image of it so if/when something goes wrong, I can just slap the image back on it and be up and going again. But before I brought her home, I took advantage of free software from the server at work and found a folder with Ghost in it, so I copied it down onto the desktop of my vectra. I guess it's everything that I need for Norton's Ghost to work. But how do I actually make a bootable CD and put Ghost onto it? Then I just boot from the CD and copy an image of the machine to some blank CDs or a DVDs, right??

Thanks in advance,
Ian

 

[enon8727]

Anybody??

 

[Kreon]

Google for directions maybe...

I've never used it, and if it's Norton don't wanna

Sorry I couldn't help more

 

[enon8727]

that's true, I'm not a big fan of Norton either...is acronis true image a good alternative?

 

[WildHorse]

s acronis true image a good alternative?

Yes. I used to use a dual backup routine of both cloning my main drives to backup drives, and also imaging them with Nero.

Lately I've switched over to using Acronis True Image Workstation and am very happy with it. It makes a nicely compressed backup archive. I feel comfortable recommending Acronis as your primary means of backing up.

Some other poster here on AT (Bozo Galora) mentioned in this thread the idea that if you have the HDD in several partitions, then you need to include at least some of each partition in the Acronis backup or else you lose those partitions in a restoration. So for me, I don't really want to back up my E: drive, but I include a couple of files off E: in my Acronis backups anyway just so there will be an E: partition created during any restoration.

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