Disk backup
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Howdi Howdi, Windows (XP) took a digital turd on me last night :doh: and has to reinstall (bsod everytime at boot), had a recovery partition but when booting to the recovery cd I was told the recovery was not for the same version of windows :confused: (couldn't be arsed figuring out why). Back up and running again with a few recovery points taken but still not convinced I can recover from the rescue points. To be honest it didn't really bother me, took 30 minutes to install and another hour for sound/graphics card, firewall, antivirus etc. So my question is this, can ye recommend a few disk backup tools (e.g. Norton Ghost) but freeware/opensource i.e. create an image of the hd to a dvd and boot disk (usb stick) and if things go south again just boot to the usb and restore the complete drive from the dvd, reboot and wayha don't install that thing again:rolleyes:. Thanks in advance for any help/recommendations. Imp. 'Out of Office Auto Reply' The email server is unable to verify your server connection and is unable to deliver this mesage. Please restart your computer and try sending again. '(The beauty of this is that when you return, you can see how many in-du-viduals did this over and over).
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Howdi Howdi, Windows (XP) took a digital turd on me last night :doh: and has to reinstall (bsod everytime at boot), had a recovery partition but when booting to the recovery cd I was told the recovery was not for the same version of windows :confused: (couldn't be arsed figuring out why). Back up and running again with a few recovery points taken but still not convinced I can recover from the rescue points. To be honest it didn't really bother me, took 30 minutes to install and another hour for sound/graphics card, firewall, antivirus etc. So my question is this, can ye recommend a few disk backup tools (e.g. Norton Ghost) but freeware/opensource i.e. create an image of the hd to a dvd and boot disk (usb stick) and if things go south again just boot to the usb and restore the complete drive from the dvd, reboot and wayha don't install that thing again:rolleyes:. Thanks in advance for any help/recommendations. Imp. 'Out of Office Auto Reply' The email server is unable to verify your server connection and is unable to deliver this mesage. Please restart your computer and try sending again. '(The beauty of this is that when you return, you can see how many in-du-viduals did this over and over).
I used to do that back in the day of Win Me, Installed my OS with the usual drivers and software and created a disk image. When the time came to format i merely reloaded the image. Takes about 10 minutes if the image was created at full compression. I used Norton Ghost. Try this site for free disk image utils[^]
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Howdi Howdi, Windows (XP) took a digital turd on me last night :doh: and has to reinstall (bsod everytime at boot), had a recovery partition but when booting to the recovery cd I was told the recovery was not for the same version of windows :confused: (couldn't be arsed figuring out why). Back up and running again with a few recovery points taken but still not convinced I can recover from the rescue points. To be honest it didn't really bother me, took 30 minutes to install and another hour for sound/graphics card, firewall, antivirus etc. So my question is this, can ye recommend a few disk backup tools (e.g. Norton Ghost) but freeware/opensource i.e. create an image of the hd to a dvd and boot disk (usb stick) and if things go south again just boot to the usb and restore the complete drive from the dvd, reboot and wayha don't install that thing again:rolleyes:. Thanks in advance for any help/recommendations. Imp. 'Out of Office Auto Reply' The email server is unable to verify your server connection and is unable to deliver this mesage. Please restart your computer and try sending again. '(The beauty of this is that when you return, you can see how many in-du-viduals did this over and over).
Check out Ghost 4 Unix (http://www.feyrer.de/g4u/). It's basically a small netbsd distribution on a couple of floppys (or a cd if you want) that you can use to make an image of a harddisk and set it back. It doesn't have a fancy gui like ghost but it's free/Free and very easy to use. HTH.
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I used to do that back in the day of Win Me, Installed my OS with the usual drivers and software and created a disk image. When the time came to format i merely reloaded the image. Takes about 10 minutes if the image was created at full compression. I used Norton Ghost. Try this site for free disk image utils[^]
Probably to for ghost, thanks..... 'Out of Office Auto Reply' The email server is unable to verify your server connection and is unable to deliver this mesage. Please restart your computer and try sending again. '(The beauty of this is that when you return, you can see how many in-du-viduals did this over and over).
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Howdi Howdi, Windows (XP) took a digital turd on me last night :doh: and has to reinstall (bsod everytime at boot), had a recovery partition but when booting to the recovery cd I was told the recovery was not for the same version of windows :confused: (couldn't be arsed figuring out why). Back up and running again with a few recovery points taken but still not convinced I can recover from the rescue points. To be honest it didn't really bother me, took 30 minutes to install and another hour for sound/graphics card, firewall, antivirus etc. So my question is this, can ye recommend a few disk backup tools (e.g. Norton Ghost) but freeware/opensource i.e. create an image of the hd to a dvd and boot disk (usb stick) and if things go south again just boot to the usb and restore the complete drive from the dvd, reboot and wayha don't install that thing again:rolleyes:. Thanks in advance for any help/recommendations. Imp. 'Out of Office Auto Reply' The email server is unable to verify your server connection and is unable to deliver this mesage. Please restart your computer and try sending again. '(The beauty of this is that when you return, you can see how many in-du-viduals did this over and over).
Impega wrote:
bsod everytime at boot
I had a similar issue recently. I ran the SCSI disk verify and found ~10 bad blocks on the disk. If I were you, I would be weary of your disk being on its way out... Just as a precaution if you have anything important on it. ;) ~Nitron.
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Impega wrote:
bsod everytime at boot
I had a similar issue recently. I ran the SCSI disk verify and found ~10 bad blocks on the disk. If I were you, I would be weary of your disk being on its way out... Just as a precaution if you have anything important on it. ;) ~Nitron.
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startThats the first thing I checked (disks were only 4/5 months old anyway) but all were ok. I'm going to ghost it anyway tonight. Imp. 'Out of Office Auto Reply' The email server is unable to verify your server connection and is unable to deliver this mesage. Please restart your computer and try sending again. '(The beauty of this is that when you return, you can see how many in-du-viduals did this over and over).