Want to create image of my installed O/S and burn

[newtech]

I am trying to make a image of my hard drive with Vista Ultima installed and everything I have added since then, and want to burn it to a dvd so if it crashes I can reload it, I have tried reading some of the posts but they are out of my realm of understanding at the stage I am at:

Any easy to understand instructions would be greatly appreciated.

I have downloaded OSCDIMAGE and VLITE

[newtech]

Is it possible to do what I am asking? I do not want to do a unattended install, just a safe gard if something goes wrong

Edited March 18, 2007 by newtech

[nitroshift]

Get either Acronis True Image or Norton Ghost and create an image of your partition which you can later burn onto a DVD or save onto an external HDD.

[MHz]

Perhaps you may want to look at the recovery image option within your version of Vista as mentioned here.

[shawn1024]

newtech,

Use MS's imagex program to capture an image of your hard drive. This will create a .wim image file. Once captured, you can place the image on a DVD, network share, etc. You can then use imagex at a later date to /apply the image back to the device.

The oscdimg tool you mentioned is used to create bootable iso files that can be burnt onto a DVD or CD.

Shawn

[Gwido]

Use MS's imagex program to capture an image of your hard drive. This will create a .wim image file. Once captured, you can place the image on a DVD, network share, etc. You can then use imagex at a later date to /apply the image back to the device.

The oscdimg tool you mentioned is used to create bootable iso files that can be burnt onto a DVD or CD.

This is the best method,

Norton Ghost does not like VISTA I have found and I have not tried Acronis. An imagex capture of a sysprepped image that has been genralised and then backing it up to a network share or using the oscdimg tool is the MS preffered methods of doing this.

Gwido

[yken]

whats difference between capturing harddrive using imagex and using acronis? I use acronis but its only copy of a installed vista, what benefits imagex has?