Shoutbox

I'm writing this since I was wondering if anyone knew of any programs that are able to do essentially what I can do with OEM restore discs. I'd love to see something one these lines so that I don't have to start from scratch if my computer screws up and I have to replace a HDD. I would like to just pop in the discs and recover to a certain state.

If I don't make sense, let me know.

Norton Ghost

I was thinking something less intrusive.

Have you heard of something called PC-Angel?

I was thinking something along those lines.

Active @ image manager

Acronis True Image.

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Originally posted by mattisdada
Acronis True Image.

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Seconded.

PC-Angel looks slightly complicated - it seems you have to create a hidden backup partition first, which would entail resizing your current partition.

All you have to do with True Image is select where you want to save the file - it can even burn straight to CDs and DVDs, span archives, and has a very high compression ratio.

I didn't realise True Image Home, can burn to cds/dvds... and I've been using it for over a year and a half now ...

I just use it to image drives though, not as bootable media to rescue to factory state.

Can any of you show me how ... because I've looked after you guys said so, and all I can see in an option to save as a .tib. Not as a disc that I can just pop in and re-image the drive in case of failure.

You have to make a "Rescue CD". This is probably in the start menu with TI, unless you chose not to install it with TI, in which case you'll need to go back and install it.

Then you simply load the Rescue CD at PC boot, which will basically give you TI without Windows. You then choose the image you want to restore (I'm fairly sure you can eject the rescue CD at this point) and restore it.

PING, http://ping.windowsdream.com/

oddly enough, I just ran into that website by chance today ... will try it out on a test machine at work tomorrow or something... if you guys can think of anymore I'd be glad to know.

Btw ping seems to be meant for windows xp, is there a vista alternative for it ?