Iso to Backup and Restore Your Hard Drive

Do you ever speculate the times you have performed operating systems installations? Well, personally, I cannot remember the actual times I have instalLED Windows for both work and personal. Let me give some rough figures.

Iso to Backup and Restore Your Hard Drive

Iso to Backup and Restore Your Hard Drive

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Iso to Backup and Restore Your Hard Drive

Iso to Backup and Restore Your Hard Drive

Windows 3.11 - 5 times

Windows 95 - 5 times

Windows 98 - 50 times

Windows Me - 5 times

Windows 2000 - 5 times

Linux Red Hat - 3 times

Windows Xp Pro - 100 times

Windows Server 2003 - 3 times

Windows Vista - 8 times

Honestly, I never enjoy going straight through the process of installing any of the operating systems. For those who know me, I will most probably be looking at the advance bar while the installation as if I am very interested. However, I am nothing else but very frustrated and hoping that the advance bar could go as fast as it could be.

Attended Installation

Well, some of you may know that the general installation straight through the Os Cd or Dvd (such as looking at the advance bar and clicking some next buttons) is calLED attended installation and it is inherent that you originate your own unattended installation using deployment tools. However, I will not be outside the Windows unattended installation.

Unattended Installation

Most clubs use Imaging (Iso) to originate a double copy of instalLED operating principles so that they can nothing else but setup the exact copy of operating principles with their corporate settings to every new engine by extracting the Iso.

Iso Images

- Iso is an archive or a double or backup copy of whatever files that you wish to store

In other words, I originate Iso images to backup my entire operating principles hard drive data.

Hiren BooCd and Norton Ghost to originate Isos

I use Hiren BootCd, the all in one Dos Bootable Cd. One of the software included is Norton Ghost, which can be used to originate hard disk images known as Isos.

ImgBurn

ImgBurn is a Windows schedule and it's free. You can setup it and originate Iso images or burn the images into Cds and Dvds.

ImgBurn Vs Hiren BootCd

The discrepancy between the two is that ImgBurn needs to be instalLED as a Windows schedule and undeniably, a good and easy tool to originate Iso images. However, if your hard disk is corrupted, you won't be able to use ImgBurn unless you have dual booting. Thus, you need to use HirenBootCd and Norton Ghost to excerpt your Iso images to the corrupted hard disk.

The Idea

Simple:

1. Faultless an attended installation or by hand installation from Cd or Dvd on one machine

2. setup all the requisite programs that you need such as Microsoft Office, Adobe Acrobat Reader and the likes

3. Achieve operating principles updates

After performing the steps above, boot your computer from Hiren BootCd and you will come to a Screen for you to select the types of software that are bundled. Pick Norton Ghost from the list and from there, you can originate an image out of your partition drive.

The Iso file can be stored in your hard disk for easy access but not in the same drive where you setup your operating system. If your computer fails to load or startup properly, you can then pop in Hiren BootCd, boot from the Cd and restore the Iso file.

The Practice

My own convention is to have at least two partitions, namely C and D.

- C drive will be the drive where I setup my operating principles and programs

- D drive will be my document drive

- A copy of Iso created from the C drive will be kept in D drive

Benefit

When operating principles is corrupted, none of my document files will be affected when I excerpt Iso into the C drive. Extracting Iso to C drive will overwrite every data in C drive without any warning. However, after extracting the Iso, you will get the same settings and operating principles as of the time when you originate the Iso.

What's more? You do not have to go straight through the process of keying the product key, choosing the time zone, installing the drivers and generally used programs.

Iso to Backup and Restore Your Hard Drive

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