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#19947 7-Mar-2008 14:16
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I quite often fix the inlaws computer, my parents, grandparents, brothers, sisters, friends computers like a lot of you probably do :)

Theres nothing more annoying than having to ship a pc back to me 2 weeks later because windows is completely nackered.  Now I usually make an image of most systems that I feel may need to be restored using winbuilder + drive image xml

The problem is its hard to talk a relative through restoring that image so what I need is a recovery DVD I can make for them all they have to do is put it in the CD/DVD tray, maybe press 1 key to confirm they want to boot from the image and it does the rest without prompts.

Any recommendations?

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#115218 7-Mar-2008 14:36
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Acronis is a good one...




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  #115298 7-Mar-2008 20:04
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Ive used the Acronis Server suite but never the home/pc stuff. Can you make recovery dvd's without installing software on the PC y ou want to image (and therefore license issues)?

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  #115301 7-Mar-2008 20:09
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Like the server version you can create a recovery DVD to boot from - and of course depending on the size of your partition the best option is an external drive.

Another option is to use their partition bits and perform the backup to a second partition on the same HDD. This way you just have to boot to that parition and recover from there. Much faster, and should be ideal if a large HDD is present - large enough to get a compressed image of your primary partition.




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