Hi John, So, if I do back up to an external drive or another partition as aposed to optical media, are you saying I wouldn't need to use a floppy disk to boot from? I don't have a floppy disk drive. I also don't mind about getting sited help to complete the task, so wouldn't mind about selecting the image location. I just think for me, backing up to a drive would be better than backing up to loads of DVD's. john coley wrote: Hi, my mistake. I realized having sent that message that I should have put cd, not floppy. John. ----- Original Message ----- From: "James Scholes" <james@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "Mark Threadgold" <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Saturday, May 02, 2009 4:47 PM Subject: [access-uk] Re: Best Disk Imaging Solution > Hi Mark, > > Thanks. I don't quite understand the point about booting from a floppy > disk though. Surely there's solution which don't require you to do > that? I don't have enough DVD's to backup my entire Windows > instalation to is all. > > Mark Threadgold wrote: > James, > > I have pasted below a message from john coley about this subject. > > I have got Image For Windows as suggested by John and can confirm his > findings. Very easy to use and has worked well on all 3 of my hmachines > using xp home, media centre and Vista home premium. > > --Original message-- > Hi Everybody, a while ago there was a thread regarding accessible drive > imaging. Someone suggested Image For Windows, made by Terabyte Unlimited. > I > have now had opportunity to put it through its paces, and can confirm that > not only is it an excellent imaging utility, but totally screen reader > friendly. You can either save the image to another drive, or, which is > even > easier from a blindness perspective direct to dvd. The advantage of > burning > to dvd are not in the creation of the backup, but the restoring, at which > point there is no speech feedback. Another plus in burning the image to > dvd > is that saving the image to a drive or partition A: requires booting from > a > floppy, and many pc's now don't have them, and B: It would be impossible > without sight to tell the program where the image is. > In the case of DVD restoring only requires two keystrokes. It's also much > cheaper than other imaging programs, only 28 quid. The link to the image > for > > windows page on the Terabyte Unlimited website is > http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/image-for-windows.htm > John. > > --End of Original message-- > > Hth, > > Mark Threadgold > > Of all the things I have ever lost, The one I miss most is my mind... > -----Original Message----- > From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf > Of > James Scholes > Sent: 02 May 2009 16:20 > To: blindtech@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: [access-uk] Best Disk Imaging Solution > > Hi, > > I've just purchased a new computer, and after setting everything up > the way I like it I would like to make a backup image of the hard drive, > so in the event of a system crash or error or problem I don't have to > do a full format, I can just restore the image. So, my question is, > what, from your experiences are the best pieces of software to > complete this task? I know there's Norton Ghost, but I'd rather avoid > Norton if at all possible. 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