HiIt is possible to boot the computer using a USB flash drive rather than a DVD or floppy. Of course you would need sighted assistance to configure the BIOS to boot from the flash drive.
There are many ways of restoring an image. You can restore from DVDs or an external hard drive or even a partition in your computer. Although of course if you have the image file stored on C drive, you wouldn't be able to restore that image onto the c drive AS IT WOULD OBVIOUSLY TRY AND OVERWRITE ITSELF BEFORE THE IMAGE WAS RESTORED.
You will need sighted assistance to restore an image as it is purely a DOS based interface. The same is true of any imaging software as you don't have a GUI interface when restoring an image. The nice thing about image for windows is that you can create an image of the partition or complete hard drive while you are using windows. So you do in fact have full accessibility during the imaging process.
Darren.----- Original Message ----- From: "James Scholes" <james@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "john coley" <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Saturday, May 02, 2009 6:01 PM Subject: [access-uk] Re: Best Disk Imaging Solution
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 SolutionHi 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. Ihave now had opportunity to put it through its paces, and can confirm thatnot 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 muchcheaper 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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