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| crane550 2004-02-24, 4:02 pm |
| what software is best for creating a custom restore disk (or disks if needed) for my machine. I would like a utility like this for a couple things. first I would like to back up my boot drive with windows, drivers, presets and all of that so I don't have to re-tweak everything whenever I want to start from scratch. as of now it takes a good half a day to load up all my regularly used utilities one by one. another thing is 40 gigs of files that I would like to back up (I know it would be a lot of cd's but thats ok.)
Anyone recommend any software for this? Thanks!
Don't let your meat loaf. | |
| Kasor 2004-02-24, 11:41 pm |
| Why don't u create a image for your current system... if anything go wrong. U can always load the image to recover | |
| Freddy 2004-02-24, 11:50 pm |
| Norton Ghost Personal Version is what I use for my own computer. It works really well, I just create an Image of the whole drive, when I have a hard drive failure all I have to do is restore the image and I am back in business in less than an hour. | |
| Boulware5 2004-02-25, 12:38 am |
| Agreed. I love Ghost. I ghost all my machines. | |
| Deja-vue 2004-02-25, 1:14 am |
| yepp, agreed.
For my Customers, i always "split" the Harddrive into two partitions.(System and Backup)
Once everything is loaded, updated and registered on the C-Drive, make a Backup-Image of the entire drive on your Backup-Drive.(usually 4-5 Gigs).(using Ghost 2003)
You can restore to a working System in less than 10 minutes.
I also "move" the Documents-Folder to the Backup-Drive, so that the Customer has all his Docs after the Restore.
For "good Customers", i also back up the Image on my Server, and burn it then to DVD-R and pack it away.( got almost a hundred Images in storage, all labeled with Customer-ID)
In case the Harddrive completely crashes, at least i have his/her OS back on a new Drive in no Time....and no re-registering the Software.
just my 2 cents.
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| enforcer 2004-02-25, 5:45 am |
| good advice deja.
I also champion the Ghost cause. |
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