Now that all our materials are ready to go we can get down to business. You can use a network share instead or make use of Partimage’s built-in server functionality, but we won’t cover those here today. Our image storage medium is going to be a 50 gigabyte hard drive we’ll connect to each computer as we save and restore the image.
Our eventual destination will need to have a total capacity of 25 gigabytes, which we have covered. Thus, anything we use to store the image as it’s created will need to have at least 4 gigabytes free. Our source computer is running Windows XP and consumes a little over 4 gigabytes of its 25 GB capacity. Well, to be precise what’s important is the amount of used space compared with total storage capacity. Of these factors, the hard drive capacity is most important as it will determine what we can use for #3 above. Both have 25 gigabyte hard drives, the same processor, the same underlying chipsets, and so on. In this example our source and destination computers are different devices although both have exactly the same hardware. A storage medium to hold the disk image.A computer to use as our source for the image.Our list of equipment we need is fairly straightforward: There are a couple other items we’ll need, too. You can download the SystemRescueCD at the project’s download page, and if you need help making a bootable disc out of it you can consult these instructions on burning ISO images. For our purposes we’ll use the SystemRescueCD, a custom Linux disc equipped with a variety of applications for data recovery and disk maintenance. Fortunately, there are several versions of Linux that can run completely off of a CD or DVD without any messy installation process. Partimage is a Linux application, and in order to run it you will need some way to run Linux. Unfortunately, Partimage isn’t terribly user friendly, but I think I can help.
Options like the free, open source Partimage.
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Like most software these days you have some options if you’re feeling frugal. You could buy a program like Symatec’s Ghost or Acronis TrueImage, but those cost money. Imagine being able to recover from a hard drive failure in minutes instead of hours or days or easily migrating your programs and data from your old, garbage computer to the shiny new Dell you just picked up for $400 at Wal Mart.
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Everything is preserved: the operating system, applications, documents, viruses… Large organizations will use disk images to ease deployment of new systems or to simply update old systems, but home users have several good reasons to make these image backups, too. What’s a disk image? Simply stated, it’s an exact copy of the contents of the hard drive of a given computer.
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