Creating Images

[Asteeleleith]

Hi all

Can i just say that as well as creating backups from your harddrive, i find it is also good practise to take an image as well.

Taking an image is like taking a snapshot of your harddrive. This is with all files, drivers, updates in place. so if the worst does happen then you can drop the image on and restre the lot in 30 mins or so.
Otherwise while it takes no time at all to reinstall your operating system, it can take days to download all the updates u need

norton is the main company that does the software, its called ghost http://www.symantec.com/product/

From this you can make backups on CD, DVD or even to another partition on ur hard drive.
I am not making commission from this, just i notice a number of people with troublesome problems

Al

[KM-Tiger]

norton is the main company that does the software

I'm not sure that users of Acronis (http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing/products/trueimage/) would agree with that statement.

[Asteeleleith]

well, well, well

seems you learn something new everyday.
It was just Powerquest, and Symantec as far as i knew, until Symatec bought powerquest. And Veritas as well it seems!

now there is another, like i said, you learn something new everyday.

Al

[www.t6c.co.uk]

Lots of FREE alternatives exist.

And dont install 100 progs in the background.

Q - Why does every program these days think it needs its own tray icon and auto start up.....

[confused]

Disk cloning utils certainly have their place, one thing to be careful of though is cloning your machine and then a couple of days later having a serious problem, recerting to your image to find theproblem is still there. What I personally do is, once my system is setup;operating system, main programs I use etc etc I then clone it so I have a base image to go back to should I need to. I have mirrored drives in my "main" pc so if one drive should fail I should still be ok. I still do regular backups onto dvd though.
I have used ghost on client/server steups often, as mentioned, gets a machine up and running in no time, and can be pretty much automated for cases where we are talking about more than a single machine. But be aware if you do a major hardware change - namely motherboard then your image wont work too well to say the least...
And dont install 100 progs in the backgroundp/quote]
Definatley ! Ideally, use your work pc for work and work only, not for installing every bit of trial software you happen to come across ! Of course not everyone has multiple pc systems so in some cases you have to make do.

[quote]Q - Why does every program these days think it needs its own tray icon and auto start up.....
Indeed a pain, but not as much of a pain as ones that dont have a tray icon but just decide to hog resources anyway! thank the world for regiedit/msconfig and net stop !