Tuesday, October 12, 2010

ISO backup and restore your hard disk

Have you ever calculate the times that they have invested their operating systems? Well, personally, I do not remember the actual time that I have installed Windows for both work and private life. Let some raw numbers.

Windows 3.11 to 5 times

Windows 95 to 5 times

Windows 98 to 50 times

Windows Me - 5 times

Windows 2000 up to 5 times

Linux Red Hat - 3 times

Windows XP Pro - 100 times

Windows Server 2003 for 3 times

Windows Vista - 8Times

Frankly, I never enjoyed the process of installing an operating system goes. For those who know me, I probably will in the progress bar during installation there as if I was very interested. However, I am actually very frustrated and I hope that the progress bar could go as fast as could be.

He attended the installation

Now that some of you know that the normal operating system installation CD or DVD (like watching the progress barand next to the lower key) is called attended installation and is possible for you to create your own unattended installation using deployment tools. However, it is not for automatic installation of Windows.

Automatic installation

Most companies use Imaging (ISO), a duplicate of the operating system installed so that it is easy to install an exact copy of the operating system with their corporate settings for each new machine for the extraction ofISO.

ISO Images

- ISO is an archive or a backup copy or duplicate of any file you want to save

In other words, create ISO images to backup my entire operating system data on your hard drive.

and Norton Ghost to create ISOs Hiren BooCD

I use Hiren BootCD, all in a DOS bootable CD. One of the software is included with Norton Ghost, which are known to be possible to create disk imagesGSI.

ImgBurn

ImgBurn is a Windows program and is free. The installation can create and burn ISO images or pictures on CD and DVD.

ImgBurn VS Hiren BootCD

The difference between the two is that ImgBurn is installed as a Windows program to create and undeniably a valuable tool and easy to ISO images. However, if the disc is damaged, it will not be able to use ImgBurn in if you are dual booting. To have and use HirenBootCDNorton Ghost disk to extract the ISO image, the failed hard disk.

The idea

Simple:

1. Perform an automatic or manual installation from CD or DVD on a machine

2. Install all the applications you need, such as Microsoft Office, Adobe Acrobat Reader and Co.

3. Perform operating system upgrades

After performing the above steps, the computer will boot from Hiren BootCD and you will see an image to selecttypes of software are included. Select Norton Ghost from the list and from there you can image you create a partition from the disk.

The ISO file, the system's operating system is stored on your hard drive for easy access, but not in the same unit, install this if your computer does not load properly or when you start, you can then Hiren BootCD, from pop to initiate the Recovery CD and ISO file.

The practice

My practice is at least two Partitions, namely C and D.

- The C drive is the drive where I install my programs and operating system

- The D drive can take my document

- A copy of the CD is created from the hard drive ISO, to be held

Benefit

The operating system is damaged, my documents drive files are not interested when I extracted the ISO C. ISO to extract the DC disk to overwrite all data> Driving without notice. But after extracting the ISO, you get the same settings and operating system as soon as you build the ISO.

What more? You do not have to go through the process of entering the product key that you select the time zone, install the drivers and applications you use most frequently.

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