drive imaging..(computer stuff not vw)

Post by **R0B** » 02 Dec 2008, 22:44

what software do you use i know theres norton ghost.then theres the free driveimage xml.anyone got any experience with such things....

Post by **Hacksawbob** » 02 Dec 2008, 22:58

Only ever used ghost. why use anything else?

Post by **Mocki** » 02 Dec 2008, 23:06

i use xxclone to back up to my external drive
www.xxclone.com

Post by **R0B** » 02 Dec 2008, 23:17

ta steve.will check it out....

Post by **Mocki** » 02 Dec 2008, 23:26

its good cuse it can make the image bootable on a ext usb drive....very handy, and its proper free!

Post by **R0B** » 02 Dec 2008, 23:35

me favourite price.free is....

Post by **Red Westie** » 02 Dec 2008, 23:51

Recommended on professional forums
http://www.acronis.co.uk/

Website · Post by **CovKid** » 03 Dec 2008, 16:40

Yep, I second Acronis

Post by **dugcati** » 03 Dec 2008, 18:39

BDD/SMS or MOM - but then again this is in a corporate environment!

For home stuff Ghost is probably still the number one for sales but Acronis Trueimage is far better in my view

Post by **R0B** » 03 Dec 2008, 19:05

thanks for the input guys...

Post by **Mr Bean** » 03 Dec 2008, 19:41

R0B wrote:what software do you use i know theres norton ghost.then theres the free driveimage xml.anyone got any experience with such things....

Having worked amongst all sorts of boffin type pepe's for about 22 years including software engineers I am still baffled why software engineers make such a meal of it and can't seem to grasp plain and simple use of the English language. And before any of you Tefal types chip in many of them admit it. I couldn't understand Norton Ghost and the like so I gave up on it. Until that is someone on this forum suggested Acronis. It cost about twenty notes and in plain English explained how to clone your hard drive. It worked first time for me and that is all I asked of it. Good value if you ask me. I can't see the sense in trying to back up or recover on the working drive as if it goes boobies up you finish up with nothing but a posibly high speed whizing wheel in a little box. I just copy my documents every now and again in the certain knowledge that if my hard drive gets buggered I can just plug in the other and reformat or replace the original.
KISS

Wolfie

Post by **asahartz** » 05 Dec 2008, 16:48

Oh, Linux wins here! It has a built in command that will do just that: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions ... nd-362506/.

And it doesn't care what is on the drive, as it just copies the bits on the drive, so you can use a Linux setup to image a Windows drive, either to another drive or to an ISO to transport it!

Though as Citizen Smith says above; imaging a whole drive isn't always necessary. Just backing up the important stuff gets you covered.

For backup, I use and recommend Syncback from www.twobrightsparks.com. I backup My Documents, my email data, and my Favourites, to a shared USB drive every night (it's scheduled and I don't even have to be there). All the PCs in the house do the same.

When my daughter's computer had a drive failure with all her A-level work on it, I had it back up and everything restored in a couple of hours.

Many people learn the hard way - once you've lost an entire 40 gig drive's worth of files, you take care to back it all up in the future!!!

Website · Post by **CovKid** » 05 Dec 2008, 20:05

Citizen Smith wrote:Good value if you ask me. I can't see the sense in trying to back up or recover on the working drive as if it goes boobies up you finish up with nothing but a posibly high speed whizing wheel in a little box. I just copy my documents every now and again in the certain knowledge that if my hard drive gets buggered I can just plug in the other and reformat or replace the original.
KISS
Wolfie

Spot on Mr furry sheepskin coat and beret.

Having endured hard drive failures I also do this, plus run a third simplified XP installation to get me into the system should all else fail. Acronis rules I say. It has saved my bacon so many times, its paid for iteself tenfold. Forget raid, just clone regular (takes 15 mins at most) with Acronis and you won't find yourself with a dead PC quite so easy.

Post by **Mr Bean** » 05 Dec 2008, 21:12

[quote="asahartz"]Oh, Linux wins here! It has a built in command that will do just that: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions ... nd-362506/.

And it doesn't care what is on the drive, as it just copies the bits on the drive, so you can use a Linux setup to image a Windows drive, either to another drive or to an ISO to transport it!
quote]

I agree Linux is probably best and I have a caddie drive for Linux on the PC I use for CNC stuff but I am buggered if I can find my way around it. On the face of it it has all of the funcionality of say XP but most of the softwqare I use needs windows to run. The 3D cutting software runs best on Linux as it doesn't suffer the constant interupts like windows does. This results in my CNC froam cutter stuttering on XP but it will not run under Linux. Trouble with me is I don't take the time to study up on stuff. If it ain't intuitive I tend to walk away from it.
Cheers
Wolfie

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