I was wondering if there's a utility out there that will let me save every single program/driver on my hard drive (except windows) along with the necessary registry entries to a series of cds or DVD discs.

When i reinstall windows, I have to reload the programs one by one and it takes all day. I was wondering if a program existed that would let me save a image of my hard disk and will let me restore all you programs all at once instead of reinstalling them one at a time. I dread doing it like that b/c I lose a whole day gettign everything back the way it was before.

Does such a thing exist to solve this problem?

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Norton Ghost.

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Aye, but that would backup Windows along with the probram.


Still, Ghost is your best bet. Install Windows, take the snapshot, then restore that snapshot whenever Windows croaks...

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does it support using DVDs? That's a must for me b/c I'd rather have everything on 1 or 2 dvd discs instead of about 20 cds.

Does it allow compression or is it just making an iso of your hard drive?




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Old aunts used to come up to me at weddings, poking me in the ribs and cackling, telling me, "You're next." They stopped after I started doing the same thing to them at funerals.

Use partimage (linux). It makes an ISO image of a single partition and gzip compressess it. You can use it to restore the image too, and is avalible on the sys-restore CD. (Look for a link on the partimage website.) You can also make it start a new image when the current one reaches a specified size, which is useful when burning onto a disk which has limited capacity.

Oh, and did I mention it's free?
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???

I'm actually looking for the same thing!

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