Re: Bootable drive image on DVD?

[ste parker] wrote:
Adds wrote:

So I'm looking for something which will now clone my "fresh install", save it to DVD, and ideally make the DVD bootable, so if it happens again I can simply pop the disk in the drive, leave it for an hour or so, and come back to a restored version of my current system.

A restore of an OS partition would only take a few minutes, takes about 3 minutes to restore my OS partition (a little over 2GB, currently) anyway.


I've briefly looked at both True Image and Ghost, but I'm not clear if either of these will create a bootable DVD with everything I need on it (eg, the clone).

Does anyone have any advice of software which will do the above, or if True Image and/or Ghost will?


Well, you can certainly make a bootable disc with Ghost or True Image on. I've not tried writing an image to the same disc, but I don't see why you couldn't do that (but certainly the Ghost & TI I use don't have an option to create & burn an image, you'd have to do it separately unless someone knows otherwise), or just insert a disc containing your image after you've loaded the imaging program. I tend to boot off CD, make an image on a spare drive somewhere (I trust the HD more than I do a DVD), then if I need to restore boot off CD again and restore the image.


Using Ghost 2003 (the latest Dos version, comes with Ghost 10) and Nero express, it is possible to create a boot DVD with the image on and, by configuring a floppy (remember those?) autoexec.bat/config.sys to fully automate the recovery. I have done this, but for an image split between 2GB + 350KB files created on a FAT32 partition (4.5GB XP including apps) it took 25 minutes instead of 10 minutes recovering from a USB hard drive (Ghost (Windows version) will configure a floppy to allow this, but you need the latest Ghost 2003 (2003.793) to do it). Recovering from a "Ghost partition" on an internal drive will be faster again and can be automated to/from using a boot CD.

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