Creating a restore CD...

[cocacolaclassicroksursocks]

Is there a freeware that you can use to create a restore CD. I have Nero,
but it doesn't support NTFS. Thank you.

 

[Robin T Cox]

Is there a freeware that you can use to create a restore CD. I have Nero,
but it doesn't support NTFS. Thank you.

Perhaps:
http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/

 

[Duddits]

Is there a freeware that you can use to create a restore CD. I have Nero,
but it doesn't support NTFS. Thank you.

AFAIK, there isn't any freeware that will do this. I finally gave up and
purchased $ware Acronis True Image. :-(

L8r

Dud

 

[D.R]

Is there a freeware that you can use to create a restore CD. I have Nero,
but it doesn't support NTFS. Thank you.

There seems to be no freeware alternative
to Norton's Ghost. The latest has cd burning
from the floppy disk and supports NTFS on
NT/2000/XP.

 

[©®]

AFAIK, there isn't any freeware that will do this. I finally gave up
and purchased $ware Acronis True Image. :-(

I know it is a commercial app - but I am using it as well and can highly
recommend it. I made an image of my 15GB C drive (split into four 700MB
files on spare hdd) in about 20 minutes and can restore it from the
image on the hdd in about 2 minutes - much faster than Norton Ghost.

 

[Clive Savage]

I know it is a commercial app - but I am using it as well and can highly
recommend it. I made an image of my 15GB C drive (split into four 700MB
files on spare hdd) in about 20 minutes and can restore it from the
image on the hdd in about 2 minutes - much faster than Norton Ghost.

700Mb = 0.7Gb x4= 2.8Gb

What about the rest?


Bye for now.

Clive.

 

[Richard Steven Hack]

700Mb = 0.7Gb x4= 2.8Gb

What about the rest?

If it's smart, it only backed up the used sectors. Why backup 12GB of
empty space?

 

[©®]

700Mb = 0.7Gb x4= 2.8Gb

What about the rest?

Er... I chose high compression - but as the other poster suggested -
maybe only backs up used sectors...(?)

 

[Duddits]

700Mb = 0.7Gb x4= 2.8Gb

What about the rest?

True Image backs up the entire drive but compresses the empty space down to
nothing. If you choose high compression you can expect ~60% reduction of
the used space.

regards

Dud

 

[Clive Savage]

True Image backs up the entire drive but compresses the empty space down to
nothing. If you choose high compression you can expect ~60% reduction of
the used space.

regards

Dud

Ok

Bye for now.

Clive.

 

[Chris Lee]

AFAIK, there isn't any freeware that will do this. I finally gave
up and
purchased $ware Acronis True Image. :-(

The partition image program 'partimage' which runs under Linux and BSD saves
partitions in the ext2,ext3, reiserfs, jfs, xfs, ufs, ntfs, fat16, and fat32
formats to an image file. Only used blocks are copied to save space and increase
the speed. The image file can be compressed, in gzip or bzip2 formats.

 

[Chris Lee]

in message


There seems to be no freeware alternative
to Norton's Ghost. The latest has cd burning
from the floppy disk and supports NTFS on
NT/2000/XP.

You haven't looked very hard have you? There are a number of linux-based
bootable
rescue cdroms that do exactly what Norton's Ghost does and in some cases go far
beyond it.

Some of these linux-based packages can be installed to and booted from usb flash
drives
and usb flash card readers.

 

[Japie Krekel]

Is there a freeware that you can use to create a restore CD. I have Nero,
but it doesn't support NTFS. Thank you.

Partition Saving can split the image in files so you can burn them on cd's.
It also supports ntfs.
http://www.partition-saving.com/
Good luck.