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Equipment & Techniques => Computers & Peripherals => Topic started by: mbalensiefer on December 02, 2008, 01:55:16 pm

Title: Imaging a hard drive
Post by: mbalensiefer on December 02, 2008, 01:55:16 pm

Hi!

 I just finished completely restoring Vista on the PC; plus all updates and installs. With the issues I had to go through this time around I think I'd rather not have to again.
 Is anyone here familiar with "imaging" a hard drive? I would like to make an immediate backup, on hard drive, of what I have now on my 320-gig (only on a 500-gig hard drive), but I have never performed an image before.
 Will this effectively take care of the start/boot sectors as well? Which software is easiest/most recommended?

 Any advice appreciated.

Thank you,
Michael

Title: Imaging a hard drive
Post by: dmerger on December 02, 2008, 02:11:04 pm

MirrorFolder is easy to use and inexpensive.  It will do every type of mirror or back up that you could ask for.  You can download a free trial version.

http://www.techsoftpl.com/backup/index.php (http://www.techsoftpl.com/backup/index.php)

Title: Imaging a hard drive
Post by: John.Murray on December 02, 2008, 02:29:19 pm

If you are running Vista Business, or Home Premium - you can image any drive on your computer:

(http://imagesbymurray.com/ll-images/vista-backup.jpg)

Another *great* imaging utility is g4u - http://www.feyrer.de/g4u/ (http://www.feyrer.de/g4u/) .  It support backing up / restoring  disks / partitions to another disk/partition ot even a network ftp share.  It is slow but works great - totally OS agnostic

Title: Imaging a hard drive
Post by: nik on December 02, 2008, 02:43:52 pm

In my PC days I used an application called Norton Ghost, it took care of all the boot sectors/serial numbers etc. A 100% image of your old system.

-Nik

Quote from: mbalensiefer

Hi!

 I just finished completely restoring Vista on the PC; plus all updates and installs. With the issues I had to go through this time around I think I'd rather not have to again.
 Is anyone here familiar with "imaging" a hard drive? I would like to make an immediate backup, on hard drive, of what I have now on my 320-gig (only on a 500-gig hard drive), but I have never performed an image before.
 Will this effectively take care of the start/boot sectors as well? Which software is easiest/most recommended?

 Any advice appreciated.

Thank you,
Michael