backup Vista Home image

[Andy]

Is it possible make a backup image of the Vista Home, which is preinstalled
on hard drive of my new laptop? I'm just thinking, what I will to do if
system or, say, hard drive will die... Anybody has advice?

 

[Wayne McGlinn]

Is it possible make a backup image of the Vista Home, which is
preinstalled on hard drive of my new laptop? I'm just thinking, what I
will to do if system or, say, hard drive will die... Anybody has advice?

Open a command prompt and type "wbadmin" , read and see if that is suitable.

Wayne McGlinn
Brisbane, Oz

 

[Guest]

There should be an option to make a recovery disk from another partition on
your hard drive. If you can't find it, ring the computer manufacturer, and
get them to point you in the right direction, or, supply you with an OEM
vista Disk for your machine.

 

[dev]

/Andy/ said:

Is it possible make a backup image of the Vista Home, which is preinstalled
on hard drive of my new laptop? I'm just thinking, what I will to do if
system or, say, hard drive will die... Anybody has advice?

Third party imaging tools can be a lifesaver...

http://terabyteunlimited.com (Image for Windows)

is but one.

 

[Andy]

command prompt says: 'wbadmin' is not recognized as an internal or external
command, operable program or batch file

 

[Andy]

I'd like to have such option which you talk about...
Yes, there are two partitions C: and D: but where and how they hide Vista,
they don't want say to me...
They talk something about warranty... And so on...

 

[Andy]

I've checked your link...
This product doesn't have any word 'Vista' in its description....
Same-same I-net community doesn't have much good words about this product...
Most imaging progs which I know, cannot separate OS from all those junks
like Norton and so on.. But I want to have a clean OEM disk of the OS_only,
which I paid money for...

 

[dev]

/Andy/ said:

I've checked your link...
This product doesn't have any word 'Vista' in its description....
Same-same I-net community doesn't have much good words about this product...
Most imaging progs which I know, cannot separate OS from all those junks
like Norton and so on.. But I want to have a clean OEM disk of the OS_only,
which I paid money for...

IFW works fine with Vista.

An image of a partition does not discriminate. Whatever is on the
partition will be imaged. The only way to get rid of "junk" is to write
an image prior to installation of those programs.

 

[Rock]

"Andy" wrote

Open a command prompt and type "wbadmin" , read and see if that is
suitable.

Wbadmin which is the command tool for Complete PC Backup, is not available
in Vista Home Premium.

 

[Rock]

Is it possible make a backup image of the Vista Home, which is
preinstalled on hard drive of my new laptop? I'm just thinking, what I
will to do if system or, say, hard drive will die... Anybody has advice?

Vista Home Premium does not have the tools to do that. Complete PC Backup,
which is a form of drive imaging, is available in Business, Enterprise and
Ultimate.

Fret not though, Acronis True Image Home, version 10, works well in Vista
(and XP). Images can be full, incremental or differential. Imaging is on a
partition or drive basis, and restores can be done on a file, partition or
drive basis. It also does file backup and disk cloning.

Look around for the best price. Don't get it from Acronis. I saw it at
Newegg.com for $21.99 once, vs. $49.99 from Acronis.

Image to an external hard drive.

I do a full image weekly, with a nightly incremental image, alternating
between two external drives so one can be stored off site each week.