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...
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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. Thanks in advance.
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