Dear Forum,
I have long been aware of drive imaging. I once used Acronis, had a "starter disc" and drive images, but the restore was erratic so I gave up. I am wondering if someone will help me through setting up imaging or point me somewhere..
I have 3 partitions:-
C contains windows and...
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After reformatting and reinstalling W7 Pro and getting it all set-up and updated i am going to do an image ( with one of the tools on UBCD).
But it occurred to me that in the near future i am going to be upgrading my system entirely and am curious, what happens if i take the image of my current...
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Assume I created a bootable USB stick with some additional software on it.
Now I want to backup the whole stuff into an archive file on my hard disc.
If I would have an CD/DVD I could create a well known ISO file for it which contains everything.
How do I do this for an USB stick?
If I just...
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i have "imaged" my system drive using DriveImage XML
I set it as active with windows disk manager.
but when I try to boot it tells me that BOOTMGR is missing.
however, bootmgr exists on the system reserved partition
it is also in windows\boot\pcat and under windows\winsxs\.........
so what is...
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I just installed a WD Caviar Black last week as a second internal HD. I've had a couple of pleasant surprises. The first was moving my virtual machines there improved the performance of them. The second was making a drive image with Acronis there it takes about half the time of doing on one of...
If your wondering why, its inconvenient to image drives across multiple computers because the only thing different about them is windows key, and if your restoring drives constantly it can be a real pain. So whats microsofts stance on this, if i have a valid licenses x computers can i just use a...
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Hello there,
My Uncle bought a new HDD and wanted to migrate his Windows 7 Installation from its original HDD to the new one (Maxtor to Hitachi).
A tech friend of mine recommended CloneZilla, a freeware imaging program which would allow me to make an image of the HDD and transfer it to another...
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