if i create a image of my drive c: of 10gig, and i go get myself another new hard disk and i would wish to use this image of my previous drive onto this new hard disk it is possible?
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if i create a image of my drive c: of 10gig, and i go get myself another new hard disk and i would wish to use this image of my previous drive onto this new hard disk it is possible?
Yes, it's possible!
If you don't already own Ghost, consider giving the Acronis products a try...
True Image in particular.
I use the Server product myself.
www.acronis.com/products/trueimage/
It had great compression and speed and their support is very helpful.
if you "ghosted" windows xp, you can face some "issues" to reload it on a diferent computer configuration...
cacosapo right but in this specific case, he's only changing the hard drive so it'll work.
ok, another question pops up to my mind is when i create the image as a partition image can i restore it to a hard disk drive instead of a partition :confused:
If you want to restore a partition image to a new disk, you can either restore as is and a new partition will be created the same size as the partition imaged, or you can create your own partition (usually if a larger size is needed) and choose the partition you created as the restore point.
Make sense?
Which version of what software are you using?
I wanted to let you know that along with Acronis products, I also use R-Studio to image
drives and partitions.
www.r-studio.com
It's also a great forensics tool.
why it is a good forensics tool as well :confused:Quote:
Originally posted here by ss2chef
If you want to restore a partition image to a new disk, you can either restore as is and a new partition will be created the same size as the partition imaged, or you can create your own partition (usually if a larger size is needed) and choose the partition you created as the restore point.
Make sense?
Which version of what software are you using?
I wanted to let you know that along with Acronis products, I also use R-Studio to image
drives and partitions.
www.r-studio.com
It's also a great forensics tool.
if can "image" a HD, you can quickly recover your system (i.e. remove trojan) and have all data (thru an image) to analyse AFTER you had recovered your system. You will have all time to calmly get all information about the attack, just reloading image on other machine.
Its good also for knowledge. Imagine you discovered a lot of trojan on your web server and you wanna study that bots.
image web server ---> after remove all trojans
restore image on a controlled environment --> calmly study trojan behavior.
fun, isnt it?
R-Studio does a very good job at recovering deleted files and reading bad partitions from either a drive itself or images of a drive created with R-Studio..Quote:
If that is what you were wondering.
i think GetDataBack is better :p
Any technical reason why?Quote:
i prefer products from dead Power Quest (now Symantec, as Ghost): Drive Image and Partition Magic.
Both has tons of features and work very well cross platform.
Although they belong to same company, Ghost is quite diferent from DI and PM. IMHO, DI/PM are better
well, it serves it's purpose well by recovering majority of my data back :DQuote:
not really technical ( but that is me making a comment on a technicality ;)) neway... if you are just going to rip everything off 1 hd and put it on another/bigger harddrive, i would just slave the hd and copy over what i want... granted this is a personal preferance, but i like to have a "clean" operating system every so often because i am convinced a fresh install of winxp runs faster than a 6 month old one... ;)
of course it runs faster, you don't have all those darn "updates" and "security patches" slowing the thing down. ;)Quote:
i am convinced a fresh install of winxp runs faster than a 6 month old one...
It is not so much the updates and patches it is more of the programs that are installed and uninstalled over time it will slow down the computer.
Are you saying it's better due to experiences you have had with both?Quote:
Originally posted here by Death_Knight
well, it serves it's purpose well by recovering majority of my data back :D
Just curious as I use R-Studio quite and bit and am open to using other products.
Do you care to offer any info on what might make it "better" (your word)?
Did R-Studio not perform well for you?
For me, R-Studio has been second to none with helping a user recover a deleted file over the network without having to make a trip to their PC.
Thanks,
SGS
have no tried usign r-studio :DQuote:
Originally posted here by ss2chef
Are you saying it's better due to experiences you have had with both?
Just curious as I use R-Studio quite and bit and am open to using other products.
Do you care to offer any info on what might make it "better" (your word)?
Did R-Studio not perform well for you?
For me, R-Studio has been second to none with helping a user recover a deleted file over the network without having to make a trip to their PC.
Thanks,
SGS