03-04-2003, 12:25 AM
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Executive Editor
Join Date: Aug 2006
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Cloning a Hard Drive Partition to CD-R
Ok, time to tap into the amazing body of knowledge that is YOU, the reader. I'm finally getting set up to use my Shuttle SS51G as my main PC, and I've got a dual-boot XP all nicely set up with all security patches applied. Now I want to take a snapshot of that and image it to a CD-R so I can easily restore later.
I used to use a product called CDresQ from Plextor, and it worked quite well, but they only support Plextor drives and not NTFS on Windows XP. :? So what do you use for this purpose? Remember it has to be CD-R driven - I'm not interested in cloning it to another drive.
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03-04-2003, 12:36 AM
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Neophyte
Join Date: Apr 2002
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Norton Ghost
That sounds like the perfect job for Norton Ghost. That's what I've always used...
James
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03-04-2003, 12:36 AM
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Neophyte
Join Date: Feb 2003
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What u need is norton ghost, can clone to CD, HD even across a network. Very competent little program, you'll need the latest version for XP support.
I have a 3 CD image of a clean install of my XP drive, much easier to re-load it than install XP and drivers and settings etc.
Matt
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03-04-2003, 12:38 AM
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03-04-2003, 12:44 AM
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Neophyte
Join Date: May 2002
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I just swithed to Acronis TrueImage for the same reasons you mentioned. It is very easy to use. I found them via CNET. You can try the software before you buy it. If you happen to have Norton Ghost they will almost give you the software for free.
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03-04-2003, 12:51 AM
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Pontificator
Join Date: Mar 2002
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Norton Ghost IS the product you want. It�s remarkably versatile and very small. The exe can easily fit on a floppy.
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03-04-2003, 12:52 AM
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Neophyte
Join Date: Jan 2003
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Ghost!
Another vote for Ghost. Ghost can do the same amount of work that Drive Image can do and more. The item that puts it over the top for me is Ghost Explorer. With that, you can into the image you made of the drive and restore just one file. Much nicer than haveing to restore the entire image to get one little file.
KevG
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03-04-2003, 12:57 AM
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Executive Editor
Join Date: Aug 2006
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Originally Posted by JLittle2
I just swithed to Acronis TrueImage for the same reasons you mentioned. It is very easy to use. I found them via CNET. You can try the software before you buy it. If you happen to have Norton Ghost they will almost give you the software for free.
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Hmm - interesting that it can back up Windows from WITHIN Windows - that's a tough thing to do. 8O
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03-04-2003, 12:58 AM
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Ponderer
Join Date: Apr 2004
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Drive Image has worked very well for me. It supports most CD-R/RW drives. Symantec products tend to hog system resources, in my experience anyway.
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03-04-2003, 01:00 AM
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Philosopher
Join Date: Feb 2002
Posts: 513
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Try Ghost, it's versatile and supports a wide variety of media, local and networked. I also have DI (like to upgrade both each year) but hardly use it.
I had a bunch of automated boot CDs in various configs, but lately I've just been booting off a HDD partition.
If you can swing it the Ghost corporate edition is very nice, with a central image target host...
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