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| 1351267 | 2013-08-15 04:24:00 | Hi guys. A question about imaging programs, for Winxp, Win7 etc The imaging programs that boot from a CD : no issues (except for some rare exceptions with USB HD's or weird bootloaders ) The imaging programs that try & image while Win is still running : do these actually allways work, 100% ?? Ive had a few issues trying these in the past, or restoring from images customers have made with these sorts of programs . Can a true image be made while Win is still running, some files will be locked etc, & can VSS copies of locked/system files allways be relied on(?) for this sort of thing in XP, Win7 . Cheers |
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| 1351268 | 2013-08-15 05:19:00 | I use Active @ Disk image, that has never given any problems creating a image from within windows, BUT I normally do them Via the CD anyway, as it means the program has to be installed in the OS. | wainuitech (129) | ||
| 1351269 | 2013-08-15 05:50:00 | I use Active @ Disk image, that has never given any problems creating a image from within windows, BUT I normally do them Via the CD anyway, as it means the program has to be installed in the OS. +1 Tried it from Windows, no issues, but I like to use the boot CD - better to be safe than sorry..... |
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| 1351270 | 2013-08-15 07:53:00 | I use Active @ Disk image, that has never given any problems creating a image from within windows, BUT I normally do them Via the CD anyway, as it means the program has to be installed in the OS. +2 I also use it from a flash drive as well |
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| 1351271 | 2013-08-15 09:22:00 | Most of the Acronis Backup & Restore products support this, and do it really effectively. | inphinity (7274) | ||
| 1351272 | 2013-08-15 09:35:00 | I also use Active@ and I have always run it from within windows. Both W7 & W8. It works perfectly. It actually makes sense to me to run it from the CD particularly on the sort of work the professionals are involved in. I am just using it to back up my own machines so I have it installed and run it from there because it is convenient to do so. | CliveM (6007) | ||
| 1351273 | 2013-08-15 09:48:00 | Macrium Reflect is excellent. Basic imaging version is free, as well. | linw (53) | ||
| 1351274 | 2013-08-15 11:10:00 | ShadowProtect, best and fastest imaging software available. I've tried all the others and while they do work they don't come close to ShadowProtect. Also the most expensive but you get what you pay for. :D I also have the IT Edition which allows me to take images of any, and as many machines, as I like, including servers, and it can do it without interrupting the user/s, as you don't need to install it at all, or you can boot off the supplied USB stick and take an image of a machine without Windows running. |
CYaBro (73) | ||
| 1351275 | 2013-08-15 21:52:00 | ShadowProtect, best and fastest imaging software available. I've tried all the others and while they do work they don't come close to ShadowProtect. Also the most expensive but you get what you pay for. :D Sorry buddy, its a long way from the best ;) Had a few times where people have actually purchased shadow protect, some had read previous posts in this forum, and they have found the exact same thing I did when I re-tried it last year. Which is -- While it does make a image of the whole drive and there are a lot of options,you cant actually put back all partitions in one go. You have to manually create partitions if its more than one. ( this was actually confirmed last time when asked) A OS like W7 while it images the whole drive it wont allow you to put it all back in one go, the hidden partition and the main OS partition, or various other partitions as in HP Compaqs, which have several, instead theres a check box you tick to allow it to fix the bootup, other wise it wont boot after putting back the image. I tried it last year, so unless they have fixed that problem, its not actually doing the re-imaging back as some other programs do. Just had a look on storagecrafts site, and back on 27th December last year their own tech guys STC_Stephen said its a feature they are looking into : www.storagecraft.com Other programs, both free and paid can already do this. |
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| 1351276 | 2013-08-15 22:07:00 | Running from within windows is not Ideal and you get more reliable results from a boot disk. Still it can work and save some hassle at times, just don't delete the source disk until confirming the image has worked. I bought Active@ after seeing it recommended here a few times and using the trial version - simple and effective both from within windows and from the disk. Only used it about 3 times so not much of a test but 100% success so far. Mainly I use it to clone the system drive when upgrading. I make an image of a new system also but those aren't actually much use very often - usually by the time I need to restore windows a lot has changed from the initial image. I've also succesfully used both windows in built backup and a couple versions of acronis. The windows one works reliably from within windows but is slow and not very flexible and isn't the best for cloning a drive (best suited for scheduled backups for restoration on to an identical sized drive). Acronis has worked very well for me a couple of times but has also caused me some issues such as cloned drives that aren't bootable and one time reducing the size of the hidden windows partition which made it impossible to run windows backup (the shadow copy service requires some space on the partitions it's imaging) on an otherwise functional boot disk. |
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