[access-uk] Re: a little guide to image for windows

  • From: "hotscot" <hotscot72@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2011 09:31:04 -0000

Okay John, I'll try it out soon, thanks, 

Billy

-----Original Message-----
From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
john coley
Sent: 16 November 2011 22:03
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [access-uk] Re: a little guide to image for windows

Hi Billy, that'll fit on about 4. Using default compression it fits about 14

gigs onto a DVD.
                    John.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "hotscot" <hotscot72@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, November 16, 2011 8:26 PM
Subject: [access-uk] Re: a little guide to image for windows


> John, thanks. My Cdrive sonsists of 50.6 gb. Will this fit on one dvd do 
> you
> think?,
>
> Billy
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf 
> Of
> john coley
> Sent: 16 November 2011 16:21
> To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [access-uk] Re: a little guide to image for windows
>
> Hi Billy, you boot with it. After you've pressed a key to boot from cd and
> the dvd fires up image for windows fires up. I think the first little 
> window
>
> is a welcome message. After a few seconds that one goes and another little
> box comes up, which is the one asking you if you want to proceed. Press y
> and it'll do it.
>                    John.
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "hotscot" <hotscot72@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Wednesday, November 16, 2011 1:49 PM
> Subject: [access-uk] Re: a little guide to image for windows
>
>
>> John, thanks for this.
>> One more query. If you have to restore your whole hard disk for any
>> reason,
>> and you have managed to get the drive on one dvd.
>> Can you restore the DVD Image from the desktop or have to got to run the
>> Image from boot-up?,
>>
>> Billy
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
>> Of
>> john coley
>> Sent: 16 November 2011 13:32
>> To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Subject: [access-uk] Re: a little guide to image for windows
>>
>> Hi Billy, yes it will. It'll spit the first one out and ask for the next
>> one. I keep my image to a single dvd, because it's more straightforward,
>> but
>>
>> you can back up to as many dvd's as it takes. You'll find though that 
>> when
>> it's more than one, because it does things in a certain order it'll ask
>> you
>> to take one out and put the next one in, then to put the first one back 
>> in
>> and so on,so you'd have to keep the disks in order. I can't say why it
>> does
>> things the way it does, but I imagine the second time it asks for a dvd
>> it's
>>
>> either checking it or writing some more to it.
>>  The easiest way in our position is limiting the image to one dvd, but if
>> you're in the habit of using your c drive for storage you're just going 
>> to
>> have to put up with the messing around.
>>  As for restoring it's just a case of waiting till it spits one out and
>> putting the next one in. Never having done a multi-disk backup though I
>> can't say how easy or not you may find it. If you just do a single dvd
>> image
>>
>> though it's a piece of cake.
>>                     John.
>>
>> o do a large backup as a ---- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "hotscot" <hotscot72@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Sent: Wednesday, November 16, 2011 12:42 PM
>> Subject: [access-uk] Re: a little guide to image for windows
>>
>>
>>> Hi John, sorry if I'm a little late on this thread, but I'm really
>>> Interested in this Image for windows.
>>> One question please; If you need more than one dvd to copy your C drive,
>>> will the software ask for the next disk, after the first one is
>>> completed?,
>>> PS. How difficult or easy is it to restore the Image from the disk, wil
>>> it
>>> just run and install?,
>>> Billy
>>>
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
>>> Of
>>> ANDY COLLINS
>>> Sent: 07 November 2011 15:55
>>> To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>> Subject: [access-uk] Re: a little guide to image for windows
>>>
>>> Thanks John for this. Doing things like adding the tbi extension is the
>>> kind
>>>
>>> of thing that might well stump me unless it is clear this has to be 
>>> done,
>>> I'd not have known -
>>>
>>> Andy
>>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>>> From: "john coley" <johncoley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>> To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>> Sent: Sunday, November 06, 2011 10:45 PM
>>> Subject: [access-uk] a little guide to image for windows
>>>
>>>
>>>> Hi Carol and Andy, just in case you decide to check it out I thought 
>>>> I'd
>>>> give you some idea of the image for windows screens.
>>>>  The first screen gives options for different backups and restores. It
>>>> defaults to full backup, so if that's what you're going to do just 
>>>> press
>>>> enter on next.
>>>>  The second screen is where you tell it what partition you want to back
>>>> up. If you want to back up your C partition choose the second in the
>>>> list.
>>>>  The next screen is where you tell it where to save the image. If 
>>>> you're
>>>> going to image to CD or DVD arrow down to your burner.
>>>>  Next screen it will ask you for a file name. It will have an auto
>>>> generated one, so just delete that and put a file name in. I use the
>>>> date.
>>>
>>>> Remember to put the .TBI file extention at the end.
>>>>  The next screen has a lot of check boxes, all of which for general
>>>> purposes are left alone. Just press next.
>>>>  The last screen just confirms what it's going to do. Tab a few times
>>>> till
>>>
>>>> you get to the start button and press it.
>>>>  Hopefully you'll have a disk in the drive. Assuming you have it'll 
>>>> just
>>>> do the image. You'll get a progress bar, so you'll know how it's going.
>>>>  You'll hear it count to 100 percent, then, depending on the options
>>>> you've set it may count up to 100 again, and then it will spit the
>>>> drawer
>>>> out, and ask you to insert the disk again. Just close the drawer and
>>>> press
>>>
>>>> enter.
>>>>  This is assuming it's a single DVD. As I said earlier multi disk 
>>>> images
>>>> get more involved.
>>>>  When it's finished it will eject the drawer and you'll get a close
>>>> button. That's it. Take the disk out, close the drawer, click the close
>>>> button and you're done.
>>>>                    John.
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