Vista - Home premium system backup?

My Vista Home premium doesn't offer Complete PC backup, and in any case I am
not so sure I miss that facility?.

What I want is some means to create a CD or DVD from which I can boot my
machine and in case I need it reinstall my Vista with all upgrades that were
applied at the time I made that backup. If that backup includes all my
installed programs at the time so much the better, but backup of my user
data is a separate issue that causes me no problem.

I once experienced a situation with my older XP machine where I had to
reinstall Windows XP from the original recovery CD, after which my machine
entered a long process of installing all the upgrades that had been issued
since my PC was new. That was not "funny".

If Vista (Home premium) offers this facility and I have just overlooked it,
OK. If there exists some (reputable) third party product that offers it, OK.
In any case I should be very grateful for information.

regards Sven

Sven Pran wrote:
I believe Acronis True Image and an external hard drive should take care of
your needs. There are other imaging programs, like Norton Ghost, but I
prefer Acronis since I don't purchase Symantec products. YMMV.

Malke
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MS-MVP
Elephant Boy Computers
www.elephantboycomputers.com
Don't Panic!

i would definitely reccomend Acronis True image.


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"davidoc" <davidoc.3ajskc@xxxxxx-mx.forums.vistaheads.com> wrote in message
news:davidoc.3ajskc@xxxxxx-mx.forums.vistaheads.com...Thanks, I shall look into that.

A possible trouble is what I experienced with Norton Ghost which I used on
my XP machine: Because it was a TRUE image it had the boot disk address as
C: also on the disk copy so when I tried to boot from it (at location E
the boot process would fail.

That is why at this time I'd rather fancy the ability to create a recovery
(bootable) CD or DVD thatt could replace the original recovery CD as being
updated.

regards Sven

Sven Pran wrote:I've often wondered why such a tool (apparently) doesn't exist. Instead
of a recovery disc that takes you back to factory condition, why can't
one simply make a recovery disc (or multiples -- more likely these days)
that simply restores the system to the point in time when that disc was
made?

Bob

On Tue, 10 Jun 2008 11:41:44 -0400, bobfnospam@xxxxxx wrote:
That's what backup programs like Acronis True Image are for.

And what an extra internal hard drive or what an external hard drive
is for.

Nonny wrote:But you don't need an extra hard drive -- drives that can write DVDs are
nearly ubiquitous these days, why buy something else (other than DVD
blanks, which are quite cheap)? Can ATI create a bootable recovery DVD set?

Bob

On Tue, 10 Jun 2008 13:48:38 -0400, bobfnospam@xxxxxx wrote:
While it can create a bootable CD with its program on it, it can't
create a bootable DVD set... if it can, I'm not aware of it.

Hey,
I bought Acronis True Image and I bought an external harddisk.
I had ATI make an initial complete backup of my computer to the external
harddisk, and for the disaster situation if my internal harddisk ever
becomes unbootable I had ATI create a bootable CD that will allow me to
restore my system from the external harddisk to a brand new (or completely
reformatted) internal harddisk.

That is all I ask from any backup system.

And BTW: Thanks to those who called my attention to Acronis, it's just
great.

regards Sven

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