Image Backups - Win 7 - Manage Image files?

Brink · 03 Mar 2011

kado897 said:

Thanks Shawn.

Anytime Keith. I just hope that it may help the OP.

kado897 · 03 Mar 2011

I keep forgetting that it was your tutorial that pointed me in this direction

Phone Man · 03 Mar 2011

You may want to try Macrium Reflect FREE Edition - Information and download
Its has a free version and works great. You can have multiple copies of images and move them around with out a problem.

Jim

kado897 · 03 Mar 2011

I use that too but you must check that the linux recovery disk works in your environment. Some people including myself have had problems with it finding the backup drive.

richnrockville · 03 Mar 2011

FWIW, a lot less aggrivation than renaming windowsimagebackups is to use a commercial product that is
pretty cheap and works. Acronis true image. It works and is available at the user group store at ugr.com if
your a member of a user group.
I don't have any financial interest, just like good reasonable software. best $25 I have spent in a long time.

mjf · 04 Mar 2011

I have never had a problem renaming or moving WindowsImageBackup. I've done this many times, just don't play around inside the folder. I don't suggest you move across partition boundaries because then you are performing a physical move. The other changes are simple directory changes.

I find the following convenient. Rename images by date:
WindowsImageBackup_dd_mm_yy
Then in the same partition (or folder) create a file Images.txt
Here I annotate by date and time any significant changes that were made eg.
SP1 installed 23/2/11 8pm
Simple but effective.

If by chance the Macrium linux boot disk doesn't work then Hiren's boot CD v13 has a mini XP with the Windows Macrium pe built in. I have restored a full system (x64) using this without problems.

badspell68 · 04 Mar 2011

Thanks!!