Disk imaging software

audiophile · **12th August 2008, 10:40 PM**

ok i use to use a program called ghost.Seeing now the htpc is setup, does anyone know of any good software to create an image of the hdd and restore it. SO if anything goes wrong i can simply reimage the partition and everything is good again rather than going through the reinstall process.

dgaust · **12th August 2008, 10:44 PM**

A lot of people use Acronis TruImage

GlenR · **12th August 2008, 10:47 PM**

I've found DriveImageXML to be good. And it's FREE!!!

tsf · **12th August 2008, 10:53 PM**

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Originally Posted by dgaust

A lot of people use Acronis TruImage

I have been using TrueImage without a problem until this evening. Needed to restore an image of my Study Vista PC until just refuses to do so. Black screen after TrueImage requests reboot.

I am changing over tomorrow to ShadowProtect which is what I use at work and never ever had a problem and use it daily.

Oh, well time to reinstall Vista and applications.

djos · **12th August 2008, 11:54 PM**

TrueImage wont work with SB600 southbridge based SATA unless they are running in legacy mode!

Im thinking of trying the free gparted/clonezilla LiveCD for imaging but haven't gotten around to testing it.

krypto · **13th August 2008, 10:15 AM**

The latest version of Trueimage works with my SB600 based mobo, provided I unplug the MCE remote before doing a restore. Otherwise it hangs as described.

The other option is to boot from a rescue CD.

tsf · **13th August 2008, 10:48 AM**

I updated to the latest version of TrueImage Home 11 (was running the 1st Build) and was able to restore OK.

The Rescue disk that I had also wouldnt work. Anyway image restore and all is OK

audiophile · **16th August 2008, 02:20 PM**

tried DriveImageXML and it was throwing errors up about stuff that wasn't running that actually was.

So will try the others.

GlenR · **16th August 2008, 02:24 PM**

Did you run it from a boot CD such as BartPE?

I always run from that and have never had a problem. The DriveImageXML site has instuctions on how to include it on the BartPE CD.

arkay · **16th August 2008, 04:08 PM**

I successfully cloned a linux disk from one machine to another via a samba share using clonezilla last week. Worked like a charm but did require some manual intervention (in order to restore to a different partition scheme than where the image came from).

For imaging to network share to restore on the same machine it should work 100%.

Backup over the network took about 4 mins via gigabit lan and not a need for a spare disk or DVD burner anywhere.

Not as pretty as Acronis but the price is fantastic

Cheers,

Arkay.

drturner · **16th August 2008, 05:44 PM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by tsf

I have been using TrueImage without a problem until this evening. Needed to restore an image of my Study Vista PC until just refuses to do so. Black screen after TrueImage requests reboot.

I am changing over tomorrow to ShadowProtect which is what I use at work and never ever had a problem and use it daily.

Oh, well time to reinstall Vista and applications.

Strange. Same thing happened to me this week as well. Using TrueImage for years without a problem, now I get black screen after reboot too. Could it be due to a windows update? (Doesn't load windows OS during restore though)

audiophile · **16th August 2008, 08:41 PM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by GlenR

Did you run it from a boot CD such as BartPE?

I always run from that and have never had a problem. The DriveImageXML site has instuctions on how to include it on the BartPE CD.

no not tried that will give it a go