On Jun 26, 7:47 am, RedPenguin wrote:
> Is there any free software that can basically do what my school used
> to do? They basically booted up a CD, ran a few commands or did a few
> things, then had an image or they restored a previously made image.
>
> All they had to use was a CD, never install anything on the machines
> themselves.
>
> I tried partimage and it worked somewhat, but I assume since the NTFS
> is experimental, that's why I had a nightmare trying to restore my XP,
> while it restored 2k and Vista with no problem.
>
> I also do support for others and making a nice image, either that they
> can restore themselves or I can do it, will work nicely.

Also something that can send the images over a network would be
awesome, but if I have to send it to a USB external drive or
something, ok.

On Jun 26, 7:47 am, RedPenguin wrote:
> Is there any free software that can basically do what my school used
> to do? They basically booted up a CD, ran a few commands or did a few
> things, then had an image or they restored a previously made image.
>
> All they had to use was a CD, never install anything on the machines
> themselves.
>
> I tried partimage and it worked somewhat, but I assume since the NTFS
> is experimental, that's why I had a nightmare trying to restore my XP,
> while it restored 2k and Vista with no problem.
>
> I also do support for others and making a nice image, either that they
> can restore themselves or I can do it, will work nicely.

Also if there is no free, are there any nice/really nice paid ones?

Also, I don't care if they run in Linux (I like Linux) but I need
fully working NTFS and known to completely work. dd is nice but it
would make huge copies.

On Thu, 26 Jun 2008 05:00:36 -0700 (PDT), RedPenguin wrote:

-|On Jun 26, 7:47 am, RedPenguin wrote:
-|> Is there any free software that can basically do what my school used
-|> to do? They basically booted up a CD, ran a few commands or did a few
-|> things, then had an image or they restored a previously made image.
-|>
-|> All they had to use was a CD, never install anything on the machines
-|> themselves.
-|>
-|> I tried partimage and it worked somewhat, but I assume since the NTFS
-|> is experimental, that's why I had a nightmare trying to restore my XP,
-|> while it restored 2k and Vista with no problem.
-|>
-|> I also do support for others and making a nice image, either that they
-|> can restore themselves or I can do it, will work nicely.
-|
-|Also if there is no free, are there any nice/really nice paid ones?

True Image from Acronis.com is easy to use to use. It's also easy
to extract specific file/folders from a True Image binary disk image.

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-|
-|Also, I don't care if they run in Linux (I like Linux) but I need
-|fully working NTFS and known to completely work. dd is nice but it
-|would make huge copies.