A Digital Age Deserves A Digital Leader

making a bootable system image spanning media

making a bootable system image spanning media

Postby yeshuas » Wed Aug 13, 2008 7:51 pm

Is there something out there that will make a bootable image of a system that will span disks, the image is over 14 GB?????
Game Over!!!!!!!!
Image
ASUS Maximus V Gene MB
Windows 8 X64; Windows 7 X64; Windows 7 X86
Intel I5-3570K
16GB Corsair Vengeance Ram
eVGA GeForce GTX 550 TI
Corsair GS700 PS
1TB Seagate SATA 6.0Gb HD
Thermaltake Case
Software Development
User avatar
Posts: 5075
Joined: Wed Jan 17, 2007 3:29 pm
Location: Chicago, IL
Real Name: Daniel Schmidt

Postby Grav!ty » Thu Aug 14, 2008 4:51 am

What are you using to make the image? Acronis True Image does permit writing the image to DVD but I don't know for sure it will call for a second and third or more DVD though. Acronis does allow for changing the compression ratio and I've used high compression successfully in the past :yesnod:
Image

"The great majority of mankind are satisfied with appearances, as though they were realities, and are often more influenced by the things that seem than by those that are." - Niccolo Machiavelli
PROfessional Member
User avatar
Posts: 15790
Joined: Tue Sep 14, 2004 5:22 am
Real Name: Graham

Postby markcynt » Thu Aug 14, 2008 8:19 am

Yes, Acronis True Image will span multiple disks if needed. It's what I use and it works great for me. I have one image that took 3 disks.

Mark
Velocity Micro A50
P5N-E SLI, Core2Duo E6850 @ 3.3GHZ, 2 GB DDR2 800MHZ
EVGA 8800GTS 320MB, 2x320GB Stripe, Vista Ultimate SP1, XP Pro SP3, XP Pro SP3
Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro
PRO Level 6
User avatar
Posts: 208
Joined: Sun Jan 27, 2008 10:50 am
Location: Rhode Island

Postby yeshuas » Thu Aug 14, 2008 11:53 am

When you get done though is the image bootable?
Game Over!!!!!!!!
Image
ASUS Maximus V Gene MB
Windows 8 X64; Windows 7 X64; Windows 7 X86
Intel I5-3570K
16GB Corsair Vengeance Ram
eVGA GeForce GTX 550 TI
Corsair GS700 PS
1TB Seagate SATA 6.0Gb HD
Thermaltake Case
Software Development
User avatar
Posts: 5075
Joined: Wed Jan 17, 2007 3:29 pm
Location: Chicago, IL
Real Name: Daniel Schmidt

Postby markcynt » Thu Aug 14, 2008 1:17 pm

To be honest with you I couldn't remember. I had to try it to find out, and yes the disks are bootable. You just have to put the right one in the tray (Volume 1).

I've used the disks to restore but always by booting into a working partition.

Mark
Velocity Micro A50
P5N-E SLI, Core2Duo E6850 @ 3.3GHZ, 2 GB DDR2 800MHZ
EVGA 8800GTS 320MB, 2x320GB Stripe, Vista Ultimate SP1, XP Pro SP3, XP Pro SP3
Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro
PRO Level 6
User avatar
Posts: 208
Joined: Sun Jan 27, 2008 10:50 am
Location: Rhode Island

Return to General Tech Chat

Who is online

Users browsing this forum: No registered users and 1 guest

cron
cron