hi all, is there any software that can create a restore disc? I do not want a restore from hard drive. i only want to see one hard. no ghost. This is what i would like to do: after installing window 7 Ultimate x86, installed all drivers related to pc, installed all adobe like flash, etc, installed office. Once all these installed into my pc. Can i create a system restore disc that capture all the above. whenever my computer crash, all i need to do is boot from that disk and everything back to when i first install and all drivers and software installed. thx
Acronis TrueImage can do that i,e backup system to bootable dvd it can also make hidden recovery partition.
Windows backup (in Vista ultimate and enterprise) can do this also, but you'll more than likely need a dual layer dvd disc. Not sure why you wouldn't want to use a hard disc, it's much faster than restore from a dvd. You'll still need the windows dvd to restore a backup.
Partition Wizard, will only copy the partition to another hard drive it doesn't actually make an image that you can restore.
Hi Urie, How can I make Bootable DVD please ? I only know how to make a Bootable Rescue Disc, then back up system files from Hard drive. Can you please show me the way how to make Bootable DVD in case of hard drive damaged ? Thanks a lot in advanced
Maybe this isn't what you're asking, but Windows can create a rescue disk on its own. If you're using Windows 7, just type Create a System Repair Disc into search and press enter and it will bring up the wizard.
If using Acronis TrueImage and my win7 is using a loader. for example, i have an $OEM$ in the sources to have win7 automatically activate win7. if using Acronis TrueImage, will it also activate win7 and all software installed?
It does what it says you can take an image of your bootable partition and back it up to bootable dvd remeber if you have the windows 7 100MB partition you need to add that also. you can format machine install xp for example put in your recovery dvd and restore windows xp will be gone and windiows 7 will be recovered and already activated. you can download the help pdf from acronis have a read.
@ calpol, did it all back up to one dvd ? by the looks of it you didn't select bootable media and include acronis look at the picture i posted before make sure you have it ticked.
@ calpol - 1. Make sure you use good quality DVD media. 2. Make sure you have Acronis run a Validation on the DVD Backup image you make. It's very important that you do the above when creating Backups on DVD's or cd's with Acronis or any other backup software that can burn the backups to DVD's or CD's.. "A flaw in the DVD Media, the DVD Drive or the image will cause it to fail the restore process." Edit: from what I can tell you have those settings correct. "Though I'm not using that version of Acronis". May I suggest you make the "Acronis Rescue Media", Which would be just the Bootable CD with The Acronis Software on it, separate from your System Backup image.
macrium reflect imo blows acronis away. you can make a backup to dvd and also creat a bootable cd to boot your system off..
Thanks for your info. I did Bootable Rescue Media CD and save my system backup in external HDD before. The thing is that I just want to create Bootable DVD including Windows and all softwares installed in case of HDD damaged.