Imaging vs. XXcopy

[popotech]

well this is my dilema what the problem is i am a little blurry on a term. is disk imaging the same thing as coping a whole drive, like for instance, how do they take an image of a drive and put it on a cd. i know my harddrive is larger than 800megs, and when i xxcopy it can't fit on a cd i have to put it on another hard disk. what is that?
thanks in advance.

 

[braddds]

Personally I have used Norton's Ghost for several years. I find it perfect for coping and transfering OS's and storing/backup. I persoanlly use it as a back up method. The new version 2002 supports cd burners (and other backup devices) and will let you image a partition or the whole drive and will tell how many disks it requires all through a boot floppy! The best part you can use an image to set up from scratch a disk with partitons and all without formating, fdisking or anything else needed! I even use it to try out different OS's (and combinations, ie: dual booting, winxp, linux, win9x, etc.) on the same machine. I can have it up and running with a different OS (previously installed then ghosted to a file or restore to/overwrite) in mere minutes. I make sure that all my data is setup on different drives/partitions and that each OS (or combination) is setup with the same parameters...I like to experiment!

Using a copy program is alright for transfering your data/OS to a new machine but with "ghost" it will compress the image (or not, your choice) and will simply do so much more!

hope this helps

 

[AlexIT]

The XXCOPY program (at least the one I have) is a free-ware disk image program. This is making a pure image of the HD for you to restore later. Just like Norton Ghost, except that Ghost can compress the image, split across different media, and will create an executable on the boot disk that will automate the restore process.

Alex