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Utility to Image Hard Drive to File under Windows
Which imaging utilities can read either a DOS or NTFS partition and copy the
image to a file on an NTFS file system? The point is I want to have a library of images as large files under NTFS, rather than having to index a large number of physical drives, each of which would have one or more partitions. -- Will |
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Utility to Image Hard Drive to File under Windows
Will wrote
Which imaging utilities can read either a DOS or NTFS partition and copy the image to a file on an NTFS file system? If you really meant write instead of the word copy, then any of the major imagers will do that fine. I prefer Acronis True Image. The point is I want to have a library of images as large files under NTFS, rather than having to index a large number of physical drives, each of which would have one or more partitions. Not clear what the first part of that means. |
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Utility to Image Hard Drive to File under Windows
Will wrote:
Which imaging utilities can read either a DOS or NTFS partition and copy the image to a file on an NTFS file system? The point is I want to have a library of images as large files under NTFS, rather than having to index a large number of physical drives, each of which would have one or more partitions. http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/ Bootitng Image for Windows Image for DOS Image for Linux --- Ed Light Better World News TV Channel: http://realnews.com Bring the Troops Home: http://bringthemhomenow.org http://antiwar.com Iraq Veterans Against the War: http://ivaw.org http://couragetoresist.org Send spam to the FTC at Thanks, robots. |
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Utility to Image Hard Drive to File under Windows
"Rod Speed" wrote in message
... Will wrote Which imaging utilities can read either a DOS or NTFS partition and copy the image to a file on an NTFS file system? If you really meant write instead of the word copy, then any of the major imagers will do that fine. I prefer Acronis True Image. I already tried TrueImage 9.01 from their boot CD. It makes the backup image of the partition, but when you go to "restore" I don't find any option to restore to any arbitrary location on the hard drive. Instead it just wants to overwrite the original partition or entire drive. -- Will |
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Utility to Image Hard Drive to File under Windows
Will wrote:
"Rod Speed" wrote in message ... Will wrote Which imaging utilities can read either a DOS or NTFS partition and copy the image to a file on an NTFS file system? If you really meant write instead of the word copy, then any of the major imagers will do that fine. I prefer Acronis True Image. I already tried TrueImage 9.01 from their boot CD. It makes the backup image of the partition, but when you go to "restore" I don't find any option to restore to any arbitrary location on the hard drive. Instead it just wants to overwrite the original partition or entire drive. The terabyteunlimited utilites will restore to the start of any free space and also overwrite a partition. Using bootitng you can then slide and resize partitions any way you want, or make a temporary partition to make the free space start where you want the restored partition. Note that the Image utilities are in their versions 2, while bootitng, which can also do partitions, makes incompatible ver. 1 images. However you can also dowload ver. 1 of the Image utilites when you buy the ver. 2; you can intall both versions of Image for Windows. The ver.2 Image products can do a byte-by-byte verify of a restore. --- Ed Light Better World News TV Channel: http://realnews.com Bring the Troops Home: http://bringthemhomenow.org http://antiwar.com Iraq Veterans Against the War: http://ivaw.org http://couragetoresist.org Send spam to the FTC at Thanks, robots. |
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Utility to Image Hard Drive to File under Windows
PS Image for Windows can image the partition it's running from using
"phylock," but I don't think it's a great idea. If you do that, close all programs. I trierd it and had something get out of synch from running some portable apps from another partition while imaging; one of them wouldn't start up any more when testing a rostore of the image. Howevere, using bootitng I have a recent bootable copy of C: on there (it's just 20 gigs, my data is on another shared partition). I can boot to the copy, and run the same portable apps while imaging the original, which is then not active. But the simple way would be to boot to a CD or floppy of Image for DOS (you could use bootitng but you'd get the ver. 1 image -- "bing" will be updated to ver. 2 eventually -- and Image for DOS can be set not to image the page file and hibernate file). My 20 gig C: has about 5 gigs on it not including the page file, and it takes about 6 minutes to image and verify it byte-by-byte. It you set the images to be in segments 4 gigs or less, you can later burn them onto DVD from your NTFS partition. You can try everything in trial versions -- they're offering bootitng and the 3 Image products for $50 together. I think Image for DOS is $20. If you're really broke, you can just use a CD or floppy of BING. It will not require registration (forgive me, terabyte!). Just go into maintenance mode when it starts up after deciding not to install it. Remember, it makes ver. 1 images (the Image products are in ver. 2). Also it doesn't do byte-by-byte restore verification. Or you could use a CD of BING to manage partitions and buy Image for DOS to do the imaging. Or you could go the whole hog and buy BING and be able to boot multiple C: partitions. --- Ed Light Better World News TV Channel: http://realnews.com Bring the Troops Home: http://bringthemhomenow.org http://antiwar.com Iraq Veterans Against the War: http://ivaw.org http://couragetoresist.org Send spam to the FTC at Thanks, robots. |
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Utility to Image Hard Drive to File under Windows
Will wrote
Rod Speed wrote Will wrote Which imaging utilities can read either a DOS or NTFS partition and copy the image to a file on an NTFS file system? If you really meant write instead of the word copy, then any of the major imagers will do that fine. I prefer Acronis True Image. I already tried TrueImage 9.01 from their boot CD. It makes the backup image of the partition, but when you go to "restore" I don't find any option to restore to any arbitrary location on the hard drive. Corse you can. That has to be restoring a partition tho, not the entire physical drive, obviously. Instead it just wants to overwrite the original partition or entire drive. Thats just plain wrong. You can restore a partition to anywhere you like on a particular physical drive, including over any of the existing partitions on that drive. |
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Utility to Image Hard Drive to File under Windows
"Rod Speed" wrote in message
... Will wrote Rod Speed wrote Will wrote Which imaging utilities can read either a DOS or NTFS partition and copy the image to a file on an NTFS file system? If you really meant write instead of the word copy, then any of the major imagers will do that fine. I prefer Acronis True Image. I already tried TrueImage 9.01 from their boot CD. It makes the backup image of the partition, but when you go to "restore" I don't find any option to restore to any arbitrary location on the hard drive. Corse you can. That has to be restoring a partition tho, not the entire physical drive, obviously. Instead it just wants to overwrite the original partition or entire drive. Thats just plain wrong. You can restore a partition to anywhere you like on a particular physical drive, including over any of the existing partitions on that drive. Are you using TrueImage from Windows desktop, or are you using the boot CD you can create from TrueImage? And probably you are using version 10? The limitation I am seeing may be just for the boot CD, and it may also be for version 9. -- Will |
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Utility to Image Hard Drive to File under Windows
Will wrote
Rod Speed wrote Will wrote Rod Speed wrote Will wrote Which imaging utilities can read either a DOS or NTFS partition and copy the image to a file on an NTFS file system? If you really meant write instead of the word copy, then any of the major imagers will do that fine. I prefer Acronis True Image. I already tried TrueImage 9.01 from their boot CD. It makes the backup image of the partition, but when you go to "restore" I don't find any option to restore to any arbitrary location on the hard drive. Corse you can. That has to be restoring a partition tho, not the entire physical drive, obviously. Instead it just wants to overwrite the original partition or entire drive. Thats just plain wrong. You can restore a partition to anywhere you like on a particular physical drive, including over any of the existing partitions on that drive. Are you using TrueImage from Windows desktop, or are you using the boot CD you can create from TrueImage? I do it both ways depending on the circumstances. And probably you are using version 10? I do now, but have used 9 previously. The limitation I am seeing may be just for the boot CD, and it may also be for version 9. No to both. |
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Utility to Image Hard Drive to File under Windows
"Will" schreef in bericht
... Which imaging utilities can read either a DOS or NTFS partition and copy the image to a file on an NTFS file system? The point is I want to have a library of images as large files under NTFS, rather than having to index a large number of physical drives, each of which would have one or more partitions. -- Will Look for Clonezilla. Good luck! Yours sincerely, Rene |
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