Making image of hard drive for use later on

My OS is Vista Home Premium and I would to create an image so that in
future if I have to reformat, I can use the image. This will save me
from going into the arduous process of installing various programs one
by one.

Is there anything in Vista Home Premium that lets me do this? If not,
how can I do it?

Thanx/NSP

Hi,

Not in Home Premium, that function is only available in Business or
Ultimate. You can use a third party solution instead, available ones include
Acronis True Image, Image for Windows from terabyte, and the venerable
Norton Ghost. My personal preference is the second one, but each has its
strong points, Acronis' being oft recommended as the easiest to work with.

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com

"n o s p a m p l e a s e" <> wrote in message
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> My OS is Vista Home Premium and I would to create an image so that in
> future if I have to reformat, I can use the image. This will save me
> from going into the arduous process of installing various programs one
> by one.
>
> Is there anything in Vista Home Premium that lets me do this? If not,
> how can I do it?
>
> Thanx/NSP
>

On Oct 5, 12:22 pm, "Rick Rogers" <r...@mvps.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Not in Home Premium, that function is only available in Business or
> Ultimate. You can use a third party solution instead, available ones include
> Acronis True Image, Image for Windows from terabyte, and the venerable
> Norton Ghost. My personal preference is the second one, but each has its
> strong points, Acronis' being oft recommended as the easiest to work with.
>

Hi

Ia there a freeware solution to cloning? What does this one
http://www.megaleecher.net/Free_Acronis_True_Image do?

Thanx/NSP

Hi, Rick
I've used Norton Ghost's DOS Ghost.exe to save a Vista disk image, and
except for the MBR, DOS Ghost.exe restores that image properly. A DOS
version of MBRWiz fixes the MBR for me. I've tested this and it works well.

What is required to restore this image created in Vista Business or
Ultimate? Can I boot from a DOS bootable CD or must I intall Vista in order
to recover the image?

-Paul Randall

"Rick Rogers" <> wrote in message
news:%...
> Hi,
>
> Not in Home Premium, that function is only available in Business or
> Ultimate. You can use a third party solution instead, available ones
> include Acronis True Image, Image for Windows from terabyte, and the
> venerable Norton Ghost. My personal preference is the second one, but each
> has its strong points, Acronis' being oft recommended as the easiest to
> work with.
>
> --
> Best of Luck,
>
> Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
> http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
> Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
> My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com
>
> "n o s p a m p l e a s e" <> wrote in message
> news: ups.com...
>> My OS is Vista Home Premium and I would to create an image so that in
>> future if I have to reformat, I can use the image. This will save me
>> from going into the arduous process of installing various programs one
>> by one.
>>
>> Is there anything in Vista Home Premium that lets me do this? If not,
>> how can I do it?
>>
>> Thanx/NSP
>>
>

Windows Vista WAIK:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...displaylang=en


"n o s p a m p l e a s e" <> wrote in message
news: ups.com...
> My OS is Vista Home Premium and I would to create an image so that in
> future if I have to reformat, I can use the image. This will save me
> from going into the arduous process of installing various programs one
> by one.
>
> Is there anything in Vista Home Premium that lets me do this? If not,
> how can I do it?
>
> Thanx/NSP
>