Windows 7: Imaging strategies

kado897 · 14 Oct 2012

As you say. You can never have too many backups and Macrium does make it painless.

whs · 14 Oct 2012

Quote: Originally Posted by clasof56

hey, nice article. with computers, nothing is written in stone and each of us has their own way of getting things done. but this article gives the basics of save, save, save which we all need to do. i have been using macrium free with a win pe rescue disc and they work great together. and i have almost exactly the set-up you portray. ssd main drive with two partitions, operating system and stuff. 2nd internal hdd, two partitions, operating system and stuff. and an external ter hdd set the same way. everything is simple and easy to image and restore. thanks again for the nice article.

You are welcome. As you say, this is one way of doing things - but there are many other valid approaches. The main thing is that one backs up at all. Unfortunately the majority of PC users do not do that. They operate a PC like a washing machine.

wanchoo · 14 Oct 2012

Quite true. They do so even after any number of lessons.

Quote: Originally Posted by whs

Quote: Originally Posted by clasof56

hey, nice article. with computers, nothing is written in stone and each of us has their own way of getting things done. but this article gives the basics of save, save, save which we all need to do. i have been using macrium free with a win pe rescue disc and they work great together. and i have almost exactly the set-up you portray. ssd main drive with two partitions, operating system and stuff. 2nd internal hdd, two partitions, operating system and stuff. and an external ter hdd set the same way. everything is simple and easy to image and restore. thanks again for the nice article.

You are welcome. As you say, this is one way of doing things - but there are many other valid approaches. The main thing is that one backs up at all. Unfortunately the majority of PC users do not do that. They operate a PC like a washing machine.

rwmol · 17 Apr 2013

Is it possible to create an image from a laptop through a wireless router to a slave drive on a desktop?

whs · 17 Apr 2013

If you can access that drive from the laptop, e.g. as a shared drive, it should be possible. But given the amount of data an image has, it might be very slow. You will, however, not be able to recover from that image. The WinPE recovery disc does not have that kind of facilities.

If that does not work, make an image to a folder in a seperate partition of the laptop and move that image to the outboard drive. But here again, for the recovery that drive must be physically attached to the laptop.

cyrilhubert · 18 Apr 2013

Quote: Originally Posted by wanchoo

Quite true. They do so even after any number of lessons.

Quote: Originally Posted by whs

Quote: Originally Posted by clasof56

hey, nice article. with computers, nothing is written in stone and each of us has their own way of getting things done. but this article gives the basics of save, save, save which we all need to do. i have been using macrium free with a win pe rescue disc and they work great together. and i have almost exactly the set-up you portray. ssd main drive with two partitions, operating system and stuff. 2nd internal hdd, two partitions, operating system and stuff. and an external ter hdd set the same way. everything is simple and easy to image and restore. thanks again for the nice article.

You are welcome. As you say, this is one way of doing things - but there are many other valid approaches. The main thing is that one backs up at all. Unfortunately the majority of PC users do not do that. They operate a PC like a washing machine.

Thank you whs and wanchoo for the reminders. Many don't backup regularly until trouble strikes due to:
a.backing up costs $$$$$ as you need to buy CDs, DVDs, USB flash drives, HDDs and other media.
b.time is needed as the info bloated when we saved all kinds of info and needed to delete or filter all those we deemed useless.

We fly the plane until it drops out of the sky. That's why!
Then we remember backup!backup!backup!backup!backup! as always appeared in PC magazines.

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