ISO Creation Software Needed

[Kardon Coupé]

Dear All,

Recenlty I've been helping a few people out, when there machines crash, by
pulling all there data of the drivers, documents, pictures, etc.. then I
have been burning the stuff out to give back to them...

A majority of the time the information is well over dvd capacity sizes and
I'm having to sit there and manually move stuff around to fit the dvd's to
not waste space on them..Like creating DVD1, dragging files into the folder,
DVD2, dragging files into the folder, etc

Here is the question, is there any software out there, that I can point to a
folder it will scan, build up a list, create the ISO and remember which ones
it has allocated to the ISO, then i can just burn out each ISO, job would be
done much quicker.

Thanks in advance.
Regards
Paul.

 

[Jim]

Dear All,

Recenlty I've been helping a few people out, when there machines crash, by
pulling all there data of the drivers, documents, pictures, etc.. then I
have been burning the stuff out to give back to them...

A majority of the time the information is well over dvd capacity sizes and
I'm having to sit there and manually move stuff around to fit the dvd's to
not waste space on them..Like creating DVD1, dragging files into the folder,
DVD2, dragging files into the folder, etc

Here is the question, is there any software out there, that I can point to a
folder it will scan, build up a list, create the ISO and remember which ones
it has allocated to the ISO, then i can just burn out each ISO, job would be
done much quicker.

Thanks in advance.
Regards
Paul.

Easier for them to do external image backups ?

 

[David Webb]

Dear All,

Recenlty I've been helping a few people out, when there machines crash, by
pulling all there data of the drivers, documents, pictures, etc.. then I have
been burning the stuff out to give back to them...

A majority of the time the information is well over dvd capacity sizes and I'm
having to sit there and manually move stuff around to fit the dvd's to not
waste space on them..Like creating DVD1, dragging files into the folder, DVD2,
dragging files into the folder, etc

Here is the question, is there any software out there, that I can point to a
folder it will scan, build up a list, create the ISO and remember which ones
it has allocated to the ISO, then i can just burn out each ISO, job would be
done much quicker.

Thanks in advance.
Regards
Paul.

Wow, that sounds like a lot of work for just a few systems. Are you expecting a
greater influx of failures of the same type coming your way?

I assume that you are accessing the hard drives via some method similar to
mounting it in an external USB enclosure. Or maybe you're using a BartPE or
UBCD4WIN disc. It would help to know exactly how.

Food for thought: Why couldn't you simply collect the data files into separate
zip files? You would end up with smaller files due to compression. You could
then burn the zip files to DVD media.

Just my 2 cents.

 

[Kardon Coupé]

Nah, as it's generally only 'My Documents' and Desktop stuff the've forgot
to move into 'My Documents' etc... all the rest would just be a waste of the
discs...

 

[db]

you might try drive image xml.

with it you can point to a folder(s)
on the disk and create individual
images of the folders and files
that fit on a cd.

also, have the program make the
images into a folder on the hd and
call it something like "images xml"

then you can move those small
image files onto a dvd(s)

to restore the images from the
dvd(s), simply copy them back onto
the hard drive and extract the
data.
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[Kardon Coupé]

Looking at the software (drive image xml), I don't seem to be able to find
the option to pick the folders?

All I can see to do is back up a full drive and/or restore a full drive,
mind you I did download the freeware version, maybe that is why?

Regards
Paul.

 

[db]

my apologies for the
inaccurate information.

I went ahead and ran my
version and saw that the
program images the entire
drive.

for some reason I thought
it could image individual
folders.

there is however a program
called zip central.

it can zip folders and span
them over multiple disks.

you might want to look into
the above to help you out
with the predicament.

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db·´¯`·...¸><)))º>
DatabaseBen, Retired Professional
- Systems Analyst
- Database Developer
- Accountancy
- Veteran of the Armed Forces
- Microsoft Partner
- @hotmail.com
~~~~~~~~~~"share the nirvana" - dbZen

 

[LD55ZRA]

I don't think there is anything out there that can create an iso of a
folder unless you meant "backup". If so then Acronis and Norton Ghost
are ideal candidates but they cost money. If you are going to spend the
rest of your life creating backups of folders then investing in these
software is a good investment indeed IMHO.

<http://groups.google.com/group/micr.../browse_thread/thread/ed523cce32b35362?hl=en#>

hth

 

[Big_Al]

db said this on 3/27/2010 8:04 PM:

my apologies for the
inaccurate information.

I went ahead and ran my
version and saw that the
program images the entire
drive.

for some reason I thought
it could image individual
folders.

there is however a program
called zip central.

it can zip folders and span
them over multiple disks.

you might want to look into
the above to help you out
with the predicament.

I agree, zip and winrar will build archives of a specified size, like 4
gig. Splitting them as it goes. Then you just burn them as files to
dvds. I used to do that to floppies. It was really useful there.

 

[LD55ZRA]

I agree, zip and winrar will build archives of a specified size, like 4
gig. Splitting them as it goes. Then you just burn them as files to
dvds. I used to do that to floppies. It was really useful there.

Although Zip and Winrar will do exactly what you say, the chances of files
being corrupted in the process is also very high. I have seen many times
that files that are split using Zip (mainly) failed to unzip when I wanted
them to. So caution is also required by way of testing these files before
deleting the source.

hth

 

[Twayne]

In

Although Zip and Winrar will do exactly what you say, the
chances of files being corrupted in the process is also
very high. I have seen many times that files that are
split using Zip (mainly) failed to unzip when I wanted them
to. So caution is also required by way of testing these
files before deleting the source.
hth

Bull feces; Winzip is a very reliable program, as is the
legacy zip provided with win XP for compression of files. They
will meet or exceed the results of any other program on the
market. If you had trouble with spanned disks, those were your
problems, not the software's. You have to be one of the least
credible posters on the 'net, you know that?

 

[Patrick Keenan]

Although Zip and Winrar will do exactly what you say, the chances of files
being corrupted in the process is also very high. I have seen many times
that files that are split using Zip (mainly) failed to unzip when I wanted
them to. So caution is also required by way of testing these files before
deleting the source.

hth

I've never actually seen this happen.

As to maximum archive size, this is dependent on the Zip utility and the
disk format - FATx format does not support files larger than 4 gig.

 

[John Wunderlich]

I don't think there is anything out there that can create an iso of a
folder unless you meant "backup".

"IsoRecorder" will make a .iso of a folder.

After installation, simply right-click on a folder and select
"Create ISO Image File"

Freeware.

<http://isorecorder.alexfeinman.com/isorecorder.htm>

HTH,
John