Re: OT: Building a restore DVD

On Sun, 21 Aug 2005 07:53:40 GMT, Groove <grooove@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

>Edward W. Thompson said this...
>
>
>> Unless I misunderstand, you are looking for software to clone your
>> installation. Likely the 'best; for this is Casper or Norton Ghost
>> v9, there maybe and likely are others. Acronis True Image is OK but
>> requires the complete drive to be cloned whereas with Casper/Norton
>> you can clone only the partition in which the OS is installed
>>
>
>I've been using Acronis to image partitions for quite some time now. I
>switched from Ghost and am well satisfied with the software.
>It will create a CD that you can use to boot and make your partition
>backup. I'm very happy with this system and would recommend it 100%

An image whether made by Acronis or any other software is not bootable
and requires to be 'restored' to make it useable. Only a clone is
bootable without going through a 'restore' stage.

The original question was software to create a 'bootable recovery
dvd'. That, to me, appeared to preclude an image. As I said in my
response Acronis, while good software, does not allow cloning or
imaging of individual partitions, it will only deal with a complete
HDD. In that respect it is falling behind other software in the same
group. While imaging or cloning of the whole drive may be suitable
for some, it is a drawback if the HDD on which the OS is installed is
divided into partitions.
.

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