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HELP creating a hard drive image
Name: haidar Date: March 18, 2005 at 11:55:22 Pacific OS: XP Pro SP2 CPU/Ram: Athlon 66
Comment:
I'm trying to create a backup image of my hard drive without installing any more software on that drive. Is there a bootable CD that would allow me to create an image from (and later restore an image to) a hard drive without having to be in Windows? Thanks
Name: XpUser Date: March 18, 2005 at 11:57:25 Pacific
Reply:
No there is no way you can create an image without installing any more software.
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Response Number 2
Name: normajean Date: March 18, 2005 at 12:53:18 Pacific
Reply:
Plug in a USB external drive and use the USB version floppy disk of Ghost to boot your computer with - create the image and save it to the external drive.
I use my 250 gig external drive to save images of our staff computers on it in case I have to rebuild their computers later. Saves me from having to re-install everything from scratch.
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