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I was digging around on the Acronis website and couldn't find what I wanted. Acronis has the ability to write the image to a CD/DVD if you have UDF packet writing support (Nero InCD or the like). But that CD/DVD isn't bootable. I wanted a bootable CD/DVD with the image of my hard drive on it. That way, if I had to replace the hard drive in my computer, I could simply pop in the CD/DVD and be back to everything exactly the way I wanted it.
Foreword
If you are going to be creating your backup image on CD-R's, follow the blue text. If you're going to use DVD-R's, follow the green text.
What you'll need
I would recommend uninstalling games before creating the image. Most games today are very large and would cause the image to be too large for even a dual-layer DVD. It would probably be best if you install all your core programs, configure them to your needs, and then follow the guide. You do not need to worry about disabling your pagefile or the hibernation file (if you use them), as Acronis will automatically detect them and not include the data within them in the image.
I keep all my documents and files on other partitions, so my system drive contains only Windows and my programs. With all the programs that I use (Acrobat, Photoshop, Office, MathCad... not "small" by any means), my system partition on my laptop is just over 5GB (without pagefile or hibernation file - those are excluded by Acronis in the image). The image (max compression) took about 20 minutes to create and came out at 2.7GB. This will easily fit on a single-layer DVD, and for those of us with more programs or files, there are always dual-layer DVDs.
Obviously, if your image fits onto one CD/DVD, then great. Just drop it into the ISO and you're done.
Some comparison
I created a VM with a vanilla XP install to test all this out. All of my images were run from my 24x CD-RW/DVD drive, so there's no unfair advantage of being run from the hard drive. I used Acronis True Image 8.0.912 and UltraISO 7.6.2 to follow the guide.
The image created by Acronis came out to 458MB.
With the Acronis bootloader, it's 480MB.
The XP CD that I used to install XP was 576MB, created with nLite, all hotfixes integrated and cab files set to high compression.
To restore the image took 5 minutes. To install took about 20 minutes.
Hope this is helpful to everyone! I'm sure that you could emulate this with Norton Ghost if you've got that instead. If you have any comments or suggestions, let me know.
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How to create a CD/DVD based image of your hard drive with Acronis True Image
I was digging around on the Acronis website and couldn't find what I wanted. Acronis has the ability to write the image to a CD/DVD if you have UDF packet writing support (Nero InCD or the like). But that CD/DVD isn't bootable. I wanted a bootable CD/DVD with the image of my hard drive on it. That way, if I had to replace the hard drive in my computer, I could simply pop in the CD/DVD and be back to everything exactly the way I wanted it.
Foreword
If you are going to be creating your backup image on CD-R's, follow the blue text. If you're going to use DVD-R's, follow the green text.
What you'll need
- Acronis True Image
- UltraISO (Or other image editing software)
- CD/DVD Burning software (if your image editing software doesn't support burning)
- Free space on your hard drive equal in size to your hard drive image
- Some blank media (CD-RW, DVD-RW recommended)
- Some time (30mins-1hr)
- Open Acronis True Image
- Create image of the partition you want to back up (most likely your system partition) and save it to a location on your hard drive. Select Maximum Compression to ensure that the image fits on the disc. Let's call it C:\Backup.tib. Acronis will complain that it's not safe... blah blah blah.
- At the Image Archiving Splitting screen, select Fixed Size. In the box enter 650MB/4GB
- Grab a cup of coffee or a beer or something... come back 10-20 mins later
- Click on Create Bootable Rescue Media. Insert blank CD-R/RW (do not remove after CD is created)
- Exit Acronis True Image
- Open UltraISO
- Go to Tools->Make CD/DVD Image. Let's save this as C:\Acronis.iso
- Browse to C:\Acronis.iso and open it
- Right click on the Recovery Manager folder and select Hide/Unhide
- Rename the CD Label to ACRONIS
- Drag the BackupX.tib file to the upper panel to add it to the image (where X is the highest number)
- Save this as Acronis_backup0.iso
- Create a new image. Repeat the above 3 steps, each time using a different Image archive file and saving to a new .iso file. Name each .iso file with the corresponding number of the .tib file it contains
- Burn all of the ISO files with your favorite CD burning program (or UltraISO). Be sure to label them in the order that they have the image archives. I call the CD/DVD with the bootloader Disc0, and then each disc with the number of the archive file that's on it.
- Insert Disc 0 into your optical drive and set your BIOS to boot from this drive
- Boot into Acronis True Image (full version)
- Click on Restore Image
- When asked to select the Image Archive, browse to the CD/DVD drive and select BackupX.tib (X=some number)
- Continue through the menus, until you get to press the Proceed Button. Take out Disc0 and insert Disc1. Click Proceed.
- When Acronis needs the next volume, it will give you an error about opening the file. Simply enter the CD/DVD with the corresponding image that it's asking for and click "Retry". When it asks for the last Volume, insert Disc0.
- You're done!
I would recommend uninstalling games before creating the image. Most games today are very large and would cause the image to be too large for even a dual-layer DVD. It would probably be best if you install all your core programs, configure them to your needs, and then follow the guide. You do not need to worry about disabling your pagefile or the hibernation file (if you use them), as Acronis will automatically detect them and not include the data within them in the image.
I keep all my documents and files on other partitions, so my system drive contains only Windows and my programs. With all the programs that I use (Acrobat, Photoshop, Office, MathCad... not "small" by any means), my system partition on my laptop is just over 5GB (without pagefile or hibernation file - those are excluded by Acronis in the image). The image (max compression) took about 20 minutes to create and came out at 2.7GB. This will easily fit on a single-layer DVD, and for those of us with more programs or files, there are always dual-layer DVDs.
Obviously, if your image fits onto one CD/DVD, then great. Just drop it into the ISO and you're done.
Some comparison
I created a VM with a vanilla XP install to test all this out. All of my images were run from my 24x CD-RW/DVD drive, so there's no unfair advantage of being run from the hard drive. I used Acronis True Image 8.0.912 and UltraISO 7.6.2 to follow the guide.
The image created by Acronis came out to 458MB.
With the Acronis bootloader, it's 480MB.
The XP CD that I used to install XP was 576MB, created with nLite, all hotfixes integrated and cab files set to high compression.
To restore the image took 5 minutes. To install took about 20 minutes.
Hope this is helpful to everyone! I'm sure that you could emulate this with Norton Ghost if you've got that instead. If you have any comments or suggestions, let me know.
