newtech Posted March 16, 2007 Share Posted March 16, 2007 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
newtech Posted March 18, 2007 Author Share Posted March 18, 2007 (edited) 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nitroshift Posted March 18, 2007 Share Posted March 18, 2007 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MHz Posted March 19, 2007 Share Posted March 19, 2007 Perhaps you may want to look at the recovery image option within your version of Vista as mentioned here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shawn1024 Posted March 21, 2007 Share Posted March 21, 2007 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gwido Posted March 23, 2007 Share Posted March 23, 2007 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yken Posted March 23, 2007 Share Posted March 23, 2007 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? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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