I want to create a drive image.

[Hotpepperz]

Does anyone know of any software available to take a snapshot of my C: drive and store it so when I start crashing I can format C: and restore it from the image? I know this is possible, but what are the limitations. I saw Norton Ghost and was enthrawled. I would like to burn a CD with a fresh install of 98SE with all my drivers loaded and be good to go. I know this is common with large networks for cloning machines. Any feedback would be appreciated.

 

[nateholtrop]

Norton Utilities 2000


Nate

 

[AKA]

I personally like Drive Image.

 

[DocDoo]

What could be easier than Norton Ghost 2001.

1) Boot with the Ghost 2001 floppy.
2) Click mouse with 5-7 clicks
3) Image saved

On a new/clean install with minimal programs installed, this takes under 8 minutes.

You will need to have a seperate partition so you can save the ".GHO" image. Or burn to a CD-R (takes much longer).

If you ever get a new hard drive, you can make a Disk-to-Disk copy.

 

[kimagurealex]

I personally recommand Powerquest's drive image pro 4.0 . It only requires one harddrive to do the image. and it can compresses a 1000 MB data into a 4 to 500 MB image. easily can fit in one CD. and u can even seperate one harddrive backup into 4 or 5 images and easily fit in different size of storage. like zip disks. One more thing. Don't use the direct write to CDR function. Cos it only supports up to 4X writing speed. So, I would just make the image into harddrive and write it on the CD later.
Sorry for my broken English.
Alex

 

[IamDavid]

I agree with kimagurealex.

 

[DocDoo]

<< It only requires one harddrive to do the image. and it can compresses a 1000 MB data into a 4 to 500 MB image. >>



Wow, really....

I like those 2 features alot. Time to locate Drive Image 4 for a test run...