I have been searching the internet for an answer to my question and unable to do so. What I want to do is make a bootable backup image that will self install without windows in case of an operating system failure where windows is unavailable. I want to image my C:/ drive and make it so I can boot from CDR or DVDR and have it format the drive and reinstall my backup identical to the original. Download Mp3 The Eagles Hotel California Live Youtube. A long time ago I saw this done with Symantec Ghost on a job I was on but have no idea how to accomplish the task myself.

I was wondering if there is perhaps a better software out there now for making a total self restoring image of your haed drive such as this. Thank you for your response. But I am looking for a self contained setup where the image of my HDD is contained on the boot disk itself along with the installation software. I know I can use a boot disk and access a backup image from my computer but that is not what I am trying to do. This will not work if there is a HDD failure. I want to be able to install this backup on any machine of my choosing. How does the Light Out system work.

Do you need a bootable revovery disk AND the image of your HDD as well? Does this require installing Symantec software on its own partition like some of the other software out there? Acronis True Image makes a similar setup where you put your image on a seperate partition and recover from that.

Software is providing this small burning utility to Symantec / Norton users for burning the product installation or a Symantec Recovery CD. Shaking The Habitual The Knife Rar on this page. ISO. Symantec System.

I think it is called the Acronis Safety Zone. Well, it's kind of overkill but you should look into Hiren's boot cd. Ghost is already on the cd that can be run from a dos environment or from a bootable windows environment (similar to bartpe but with integrated sata and usb support for flash or external hds) The latest versions of hirens have a utility to remaster the image allowing you to add your ghost images. And remember that if you run ghost from the live windows environment it means you have access to sata hard drives and even better dma and 32bit disk io so you can get the full speed of your drives and not spend 6 hours on a 4gb image. But for the ultimate backup solution for system images with no user data, I personally use a 16gb hiren's flash drive. Or rather a flash drive with hiren's installed to and made bootable. Then you have convenient read write access to ghost images and you can boot from the usb and save the ghost image directly to the flash drive.

Seriously nothing beats it for speed. Just remember that the drive is fat32 and you will have to break the ghost image into 4gb pieces. I suppose you could make one of those 'laptop hd in a external usb case' the same way for images that also contain user data, ie bigger than 16gb. But making full hard drive backups of systems that users have already had a chance to corrupt vs a backup of only images docs and email etc is against my religion. I have been searching the internet for an answer to my question and unable to do so. What I want to do is make a bootable backup image that will self install without windows in case of an operating system failure where windows is unavailable. I want to image my C:/ drive and make it so I can boot from CDR or DVDR and have it format the drive and reinstall my backup identical to the original.