View Full Version : Making Backups
hungrylilboy
08-12-2004, 03:06 PM
what is the best program/way to make a complete backup (OS n all files etc) and then make it into a bootable CD?
hungrylilboy
08-12-2004, 05:55 PM
if i make a disaster recovery disc using norton ghost, what does this recover? does it recover the computer completely to the point when the disc was made, or does it just recover windows thus losing all other information?
AndrewBarker
08-12-2004, 06:42 PM
Originally posted by hungrylilboy@12 August 2004 - 18:56
does it recover the computer completely to the point when the disc was made
yes, it will create a drive image or selected partitions onto CD's or DVD, which are bootable
I use it and it works fine
hungrylilboy
08-12-2004, 06:47 PM
Originally posted by AndrewBarker+12 August 2004 - 18:43--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (AndrewBarker @ 12 August 2004 - 18:43)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin-hungrylilboy@12 August 2004 - 18:56
does it recover the computer completely to the point when the disc was made
yes, it will create a drive image or selected partitions onto CD's or DVD, which are bootable
I use it and it works fine [/b][/quote]
is that using the disaster recover disc? so all OS files, and everything else is recovered?
what the difference between a disaster recovery disc and a backup? is the disaster one simply bootable?
AndrewBarker
08-12-2004, 06:56 PM
Originally posted by hungrylilboy@12 August 2004 - 19:48
is that using the disaster recover disc? so all OS files, and everything else is recovered?
what the difference between a disaster recovery disc and a backup? is the disaster one simply bootable?
That is using "Backup your computer to a Ghost image file"
that disaster recovery feature sounds as if you are using an industrial version, as mine doesn't have it
hungrylilboy
08-12-2004, 07:51 PM
cool. will do that then.
how much can u get on a standard cd-rw? ie. how many GB? i know it does spanning
AndrewBarker
08-12-2004, 09:31 PM
well, as an example I used about 4.5GB of a DVD
Thats with things like M$ office, Autoroute, Photoshop, Norton Internet security, Norton system works installed, along with all the less heavy stuff
and I use the default (fast) compression
hungrylilboy
08-12-2004, 09:40 PM
how much space had u used on ur hard drive when that was done?
AndrewBarker
08-12-2004, 09:42 PM
Originally posted by hungrylilboy@12 August 2004 - 22:41
how much space had u used on ur hard drive when that was done?
6.65GB
hungrylilboy
08-12-2004, 09:44 PM
damn so a 8GB hard drive is gonna take up more than a few 800MB cd-rw?
AndrewBarker
08-12-2004, 09:49 PM
Originally posted by hungrylilboy@12 August 2004 - 22:45
damn so a 8GB hard drive is gonna take up more than a few 800MB cd-rw?
It doesn't save the free space of hard drive, My C drive is 40GB with 6.65GB used
but yes, I should think you will need a stack of CD's
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