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ISO image of hardrive?

Posted: Tue May 05, 2009 11:44 pm
by Tea_Bag
Hi Guys,

When reinstalling a fresh copy of windows how do you turn that into an iso image file for backup so if anything goes
wrong i can restore my system to its original install! Hope this makes sense! :)

Re: ISO image of hardrive?

Posted: Tue May 05, 2009 11:49 pm
by Maximus3D
How big is your drive Teabag ? a iso would grow huge! better try something like good old Ghost or similar backup app so you can easily restore it back again

/ Max

Re: ISO image of hardrive?

Posted: Tue May 05, 2009 11:53 pm
by Tea_Bag
Its a 250GB hardrive and used 80GB that too large?

Re: ISO file backup?

Posted: Tue May 05, 2009 11:54 pm
by numerobis
I use Acronis TrueImage to backup a clean Windows Installation.
Saved my a** several times... :lol:
http://www.acronis.com/enterprise/products/ATICW/

Re: ISO image of hardrive?

Posted: Tue May 05, 2009 11:55 pm
by Maximus3D
A 80gb iso file would probably require a few days to be created so try numerobis suggestion instead, it's better. :)

/ Max

Re: ISO image of hardrive?

Posted: Wed May 06, 2009 12:00 am
by Tea_Bag
numerobis wrote:I use Acronis TrueImage to backup a clean Windows Installation.
Saved my a** several times... :lol:
http://www.acronis.com/enterprise/products/ATICW/
Thanks for the link! I'll give the trial ago :D
Maximus3D wrote:A 80gb iso file would probably require a few days to be created so try numerobis suggestion instead, it's better. :)

/ Max
Cheers Max! :)

Re: ISO image of hardrive?

Posted: Wed May 06, 2009 10:28 am
by tom
Yes, I use Acronis, too. It simply rocks!

Re: ISO image of hardrive?

Posted: Wed May 06, 2009 12:12 pm
by polynurb
tom wrote:Yes, I use Acronis, too. It simply rocks!
same here, i use the echo workstation version.
great value for it's price, imo.

Re: ISO image of hardrive?

Posted: Thu May 07, 2009 5:07 am
by caryjames
Same here I have used the Acronis backup to save my keester when a hard drive started going wonky. It worked fine, I even contacted customer support which at the time 4-5 years ago was in Russia and they were very helpful.

Re: ISO image of hardrive?

Posted: Thu May 07, 2009 8:25 am
by Tea_Bag
I havent installed the trial yet will do over the weekend! Just a few questions:

1) Is this the same type of backup like mozy, carbonite, idrive etc?
2) What about security? Encryption or not?
3) How much storage do you get?