New free system imaging program

Tried ET on the weekend and it is fast.

I still need to manually install Renesas usb3 drivers with the pe boot and remember to use the x32 bit not x64 bit drivers. I'm probably doing something wrong when making the pe.

The folder backup capability doesn't seem to use imaging??? Does anyone know what format Easeus use for imaging and folder backup?

Thanks for the update, Seth.

You can view backup image contents in windows explorer- just click on the pbd - see the partitions inside - then click on one to access the contents

SIW2 said:

Hi Alan ,

No, my app. needs dism - it isn't included in Vista.

You will be able to install WAIK on Vista and then Todo will be able to make it's own winpe media.

However, you don't need to.

If you already made Todo pe media - just make a copy and give it to your friend.

Why do you see the need to uninstall it?

It's enormous and he probably won't want to use it again.

My ToDo media was created on a 64 bit machine, will it work on 32 bits ?

Failing which, is the KB3AIK_EN.iso received from Microsoft universal for 64 and 32 bit machines,
or would that need another 2 hour download ?

You are correct about the size and my priorities.

My Windows 7 Ultimate occupies 16 GB of used space, including 7 GB of pagefile.sys and hiberfil.sys.
That is 9 GB of data which needs to be imaged.
A 1.7 GB installation download could install 3.4 GB extra into C:\.
That is a 40% increase in the size of a backup image,
and a 40% increase in the time to create or restore an image,
and a 30% reduction in the number of images that can be held in my duplicated backup drives.

Regards
Alan

My ToDo media was created on a 64 bit machine, will it work on 32 bits ?

Yes it will work perfectly.It loads into memory and runs completely independently from the installed operating system .

O/S bit version does not matter.

SIW2 said:

My ToDo media was created on a 64 bit machine, will it work on 32 bits ?

Yes it will work perfectly.It loads into memory and runs completely independently from the installed operating system .

O/S bit version does not matter.

Many thanks. This sounds ideal

Regards
Alan

Well I haven't had much luck with EaseUS ToDo, at least not the way I'd like to use it. I have a netbook and tried to make an image backup to my NAS, and EaseUS put 15 2Gb files onto it. I don't see any options to specify output so can only assume EaseUS TD saw the drive as a FAT32 or something (though no other imaging program I've tried does this).

Then I boot from the Linux-based .iso, and although it somehow knows about the backup in the Recovery screen, it can't find any of the .PBD files because it has no network capability!?

Acronis won't boot the netbook (an Athlon Neo processor running W7HPx64), EaseUS doesn't network, and Macrium Free v4.2 does appear to network but it won't see my NAS. My last hope I guess is Macrium v5 using SIW2's PE app--but what a bitch so far trying to image from this netbook!

Hey SIW2 it would be nice if you changed the title of this thread to include 'EaseUS'--I always manage to get lost in here wondering which program we're talking about.

You have nothing to lose trying Hirens boot CD v14.1 with inbuilt Macrium Reflect free.

But that includes just Macrium Free which I already tried and it doesn't see my NAS.

No joy w/Macrium 5 I'm afraid. Installed & did SIW2's EasyPE thing and on boot I get lotsa disk activity when "Windows is loading files" but then when I reach the Starting Windows screen it just sits there, I get no animation, and just a blip of my HDD light every long while--it hangs there.

Can't believe this is so hard--am I relegated to using Windows (ugh) Backup only with this netbook? Haven't tried that but assume it will work...

Todo does split like that when backing up to NAS.

You can change the setting to manual and put the size to 300000 MB for example.

You seem to be having a lot of trouble with this.

but then when I reach the Starting Windows screen it just sits there

There might be something odd about your drive geometry.