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Looking for a program to make an image of a hard drive onto to CDR(W)s that I can restore from DOS.

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Noriaki

Lifer
The title about says it all.
I want to do a fresh install of Win98SE, setup all my apps drivers, programs, patches, and all that other junk. Setup a permanent swap file of a permanent size and then image it all to CDRs.

Then when my system is running crappy slow and I feel the need to format and reinstall, I format and restore the image from these CDs, and I have that fresh install clean feeling without going through all the hassle of the 30 CDs I use to install windows now.

Just one after another until it's done, then I have all my tweaks, patches and personal settings in place.

I read an article once on doing this, I just don't remember what software they used...

any suggestions?
 
norton ghost, you can make an image, and then make a bootable floppy to recove from, costs a bit thoug, the new version allows spanning so you can maybe span a few cds, old version was 1 file 800k, same as new version, alot sneakier, if ya want i can maybe pull up the read me's from both ver's and post a link for ya , pm me with any other questions. i like getting pms
 
I use Norton, but it's akward. You can't limit spanning while creating the image (at least I haven't figured out a way). You have to run the image through Ghost Explorer afterwards and then chop it into 640 Mb chunks.

There's a better way (I can't do it because my CD burner is located on a different computer). Use Nero CD-R burner software. If will backup a partition into DOS installable chunks that fit on multiple CD-Rs. I haven't tried it myself so I can't tell you how well it works.
 
Drive Image 4.0 will natively span CD-R/CD-RW's (it'll burn straight to them), and I'm 99% sure you can run it in DOS. I just got Drive Image 4.0 a few days ago and I haven't even opened the box yet, so that's why I'm not sure about the DOS part. Check out the web site at PowerQuest.

[edit]Oh, I forgot. PowerQuest has a full working 30-day trial version of Drive Image 4.0 on the web site, so you can try it out first and see if it does what you want it to.
 
Booting with a DOS floppy, you'd make the image file using a copy program, like Ghost, that can handle long file names. And you'd restore the same way. Rather than copying to and from CDs, you could save the image file to your HD, which would make it all go much faster. Fastest way to do it would be to set up a dual boot with, say, w2k - then you could use w2k to rapidly back up and restore your win98 partition. I set up a dual boot w2k/w2k, using the second w2k install only to back up and restore the first w2k's partition - quite handy, especially if you want to use NTFS file system.
 
Cd-ResQ does this too. However, I just noticed that you are running Yamaha so this won't work for you since it's a Plextor only product. Essentially it's Symantec Norton Ghost for Plextor. Drive Image 4.0 is nice.
 
Ghost 2001

Can now copy your partition straight to your burner from DOS. It just keeps asking for more CD's until the image is complete. It also has ghost exployer so you can grab an individual file from that image.
 
wow, i didnt know that about ghost 2oo1, i have that, got it from a norton rep when working at compusa,
would any one like to tell me how to make an image of a floppy that would be useable by rawwrite, ill make an image of a linux floppy a friend has that he says will do that spanning too and direct burn from dos,
 
Try Image Cast 3

I know I'm playing devil's advocate by not suggesting Ghost, but hear me out. I recently gave this a try at our computer lab and the speed of copying was nearly twice as fast as Norton Ghost. It has a nice GUI and is very easy to use.

marc
 
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