Want to Make an Image
mmonnin
Centreville, VA
Well I think I got a new install of XP the way I want it before I install all the games and add a lot of data to the drive. So I want to make an image so that I could put the image back on at a later date.
I tried Drive Image but when it goes to reboot it doesnt do anything but reboot. Drive Image never interrups the boot up and runs. I tried making a image on my other hard drive and burning to CDs. Neither started Drive Image on boot.
Anyone have another good program or know how to make this work?
I tried Drive Image but when it goes to reboot it doesnt do anything but reboot. Drive Image never interrups the boot up and runs. I tried making a image on my other hard drive and burning to CDs. Neither started Drive Image on boot.
Anyone have another good program or know how to make this work?
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Dexter...
Acronis True Image
Awesome disk imaging program. You don't have to reboot to create an image, you can do full or incremental images, you can schedule imaging tasks, I use it on all of my systems. The workstation version (at $49.99) is cheap as balls, too. If you need True Image Server (for any NT server OS) then it's rather spendy at $499.99, but still an awesome app. I completely swear by both True Image and True Image Server.
Mark, it should, as Dexter mentioned, boot from a floppy boot. I use that also and it does here.
There is one floppy-related thing that is set in BIOS. If floppy detect is not set to ON or YES or Enabled in BIOS, some boxes will not floppy boot but Windows will see and use floppy as it detects floppy device presence itself after post and after Windows starts up. To get a Caldera DOS boot, try setting the BIOS to detect floppy and to NOT swap floppy devices.
Also, there are two ways to make floppies from most versions of Drive Image. One is to boot the box from the CD itself (the Drive Image CD). then make your floppies. The other is to make a recovery floppy while running DI, and this can end up being a data floppy with image location and name, and not a full runnable DI. You then run the DI floppies from the floppy maker run at install time for DI (and for an NT O\S I would indeed do this this way as you then get an NTFS-aware bootable floppy set definitely) or from a CD-Boot floppy create run and stick in the data disk when prompted to recover (this might give you a genric bootable which cannnot detect NTFS right). This lets you resuse the data disks for more recent DI image recovery data.
One other thing, is the box you are trying to image XP and have recovery for a multiboot box with multiple O\Ss on it????
HTH.
John D.
I figured it would work like Spybot does and other apps do. It would run right before you get into windows.
Single OS on it. I plan on playing around with some Linux later once I get this done.
I tried Norton Ghost but got this wierd error. I have DeFragged my XP and Programs partitions. The other two on that drive have nothing on it. I got that while trying to Ghost it to another drive or when set to burn to a CD. I set that Virtual Partition to 0MB even. I dont know why it would want another partition if I wanted to burn it anyway.
Dexter...