There is a tutorial on the forums which shows how to use windows 7 (i presume) to make a full disk image backup for restore purposes.
My first question: is this disk image the same as one which would be produced by say norton ghost?
Is win7 the first Microsoft os to
Have this feature built in?
If so i presume there is no longer a need for 3rd party ghosting apps (other than those folks not using 7?)
Basically I need to make an image of a drive before I install win 7 so does anyone have any recommendations of a good ghosting prog - preferably free. Otherwise I guess I'll need to buy one online tonight
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W7 Home Prem, Vista home Prem
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Intel E8600 3.3GHz dual core
Motherboard
Asus (need to find model)
Memory
4 Gb
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Nvidia - GForce GTX 280 - 1Gb
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Xonar Dx 5.1
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Hazro flatscreen
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1920 x 1200
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1 x Samsung Spinpoint F1 300 gb
1 x Samsung Spinpoint F1 1 Tb
1 x Samsung Spinpoint F3 1 Tb
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Later
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Infiniti Midi tower
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later
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Logitech G11
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Logitech G9 Laser
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3mb/s - awful
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I built this three years ago. It was very fast at the time. Now it's about average but still runs any game I throw at it at max detail.
The disk image created by Win 7 is not the same as that created by Ghost in that the two images would not be identical bit-for-bit. However, when images are restored by their respective programs the end result would be the same, a fully restored disk.
As far as I know, Win 7 is the 1st MS OS to include disk imaging but I'm not 100% certain of that.
There will always be a need for 3rd party apps because they have different features or they're faster, better interface, more intuitive, etc...
One free imaging program that gets recommended a lot on these forums is Macrium Reflect. I've never used it but I understand it's pretty decent.
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PC/Desktop
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Home Built desktop, Dell G15 5511 Gaming laptop,MS Surface Pro 7 tablet
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W10 Pro desktop, W11 laptop, W11 Pro tablet (all 64-bit)
CPU
3.7Ghz 8700K i7, i7-11800H, i7-1065G7
Motherboard
ASUS TUF Z370-Pro Gaming in desktop
Memory
16G desktop, 16G laptop, 4G tablet
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AMD Radeon RX580, RTX 3060, Intel Iris Plus
Sound Card
High Definition Audio (Built-in to mobo)
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Samsung U32J59 32" (2x), 15.6", 12"
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3840x2160, 3840x2160, 1920x1080, 2160x1440
Hard Drives
500G SSD for OS; 2T, 10T & 15T HDDs for Data on Desktop, 1TB SSD laptop, 128G SSD tablet.
PSU
Corsair CX 750M
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Antec 100
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CM 212+
Keyboard
IBM Model M - used continuously since 1986
Mouse
Microsoft Pro IntelliMouse
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400M down 8M up
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Windows Defender
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FireFox
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Built my first computer (8Mhz 8088cpu, 640K RAM, 20MB HDD, 2 360K floppy drives) in 1985 and have been building them for myself, relatives and friends ever since.
