Can you put a disk image on a DVD? Even with compression, I wouldn't think it would fit. Personally, I have always approached the problem of restoring Windows by making it easy to reinstall from scratch. I keep all my data on a network drive so I can just do a fresh install any time I need to. There used to be an open source tool at http://unattended.sourceforge.net that allowed you to easily reinstall Windows XP and any additional programs you might need. Over years of using this tool, I got it to the point where I could boot from the installation CD and 40 minutes later it was like I never changed a thing. But it doesn't work for Windows 7. Right now, I'm working on a virtual machine approach. You can take a snapshot of a virtual machine and restore from the snapshot. I built a quad-core PC and put VMWare esxi on it. I need to learn how to use esxi for my job. But esxi does not support sound so I'm going to have to switch to something else eventually. Anyway, the point is that I don't have any advice in that direction as yet. If I were going to try the disk image approach , I think I'd start with grml. Boot into grml, connect to a network drive, use dd to take a disk image, compress it and save it to the network drive. Reverse the process for the restore. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ben Mustill-Rose" <bmustillrose@gmail.com> To: "Blind sysadmins list" <blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org> Sent: Saturday, December 10, 2011 5:54 AM Subject: Re: [Blind-sysadmins] ntfs partition image?
Yes, see my last message.
On 10/12/2011, Ibraam Wahib <ibraam.wahib@gmail.com> wrote:
dear: i will have OS only on C partition, need to take an image and put the image and its program on a boot DVD, to restore it easily without any help cause am allone always. thanks
----- Original Message ----- From: "Ben Mustill-Rose" <bmustillrose@gmail.com> To: "Blind sysadmins list" <blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org> Sent: Thursday, December 08, 2011 8:27 PM Subject: Re: [Blind-sysadmins] ntfs partition image?
My understanding is that Drive ImageXml will be able to do this. You have to make a bootdisk to restore the image, but from what I've heard from people that have done it, its pretty much just an enter enter enter type process so you should be fine without speech.
My personal approach is to just put the drive in another machine where I have access to a full os and do the image like that which eliminates any guesswork that you would get when booting into an environment which doesn't have any speech; the disadvantage of course is that this method isn't that great for people who don't like taking stuff apart.
Cheers, Ben.
On 08/12/2011, Ibraam Wahib <ibraam.wahib@gmail.com> wrote:
hello friends please, need your quick advice what's the accessible way to make windows-xp image and install it without sighted assistant? partition is ntfs. thanks beero
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