Drive Backup Software?

pitterson
pitterson Posts: 3
edited December 2009 in Electronics
I'm looking for some sort of hard drive backup or imaging software that I can use in the following way:

Plug in an external DVD 16x USB burner then Boot to a CD on the PC. The software would load, and I could backup the hard drive to the DVD burner - maybe several media used.

Later I could plug in the external USB DVD burner, boot to the CD again and restore all the data from the DVD to the hard drive.

Does such software exist? I don't want to install anything to the OS.

Thanks
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  • Sherardp
    Sherardp Posts: 8,038
    edited December 2009
    I would suggest Norton Ghost.
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  • janmike
    janmike Posts: 6,146
    edited December 2009
    All over the map as well.
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  • Gadabout
    Gadabout Posts: 1,072
    edited December 2009
    Never been a fan of the ghost, for imaging and back up I have always used Acronis True Image.

    A friend of mine turned me on to it a few years back as it was the only software that would do a back up and restore over a RAID. Also, for most of the plants that I visit it seems the IT guys are using this in the labs for all the computers that are there.

    Hope that helps,
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  • heiney9
    heiney9 Posts: 25,249
    edited December 2009
    Gadabout wrote: »
    Never been a fan of the ghost, for imaging and back up I have always used Acronis True Image.

    A friend of mine turned me on to it a few years back as it was the only software that would do a back up and restore over a RAID. Also, for most of the plants that I visit it seems the IT guys are using this in the labs for all the computers that are there.

    Hope that helps,
    Scott

    This is what I use and would recommend.
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  • Face
    Face Posts: 14,340
    edited December 2009
    How about Win7's backup?
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  • tcrossma
    tcrossma Posts: 1,301
    edited December 2009
    I use Ghost 14 and am quite pleased. Ghost has had some good and some bad releases over the years, but this one is good.
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  • Serendipity
    Serendipity Posts: 6,975
    edited December 2009
    I've only used Ghost before and it works.
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  • polktiger
    polktiger Posts: 556
    edited December 2009
    I have been considering trying Acronis. Probably should have gotten it when is was BF special at newegg. But I have been using Cobain Backup for regular back-ups not actual drive imaging.
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  • nguyendot
    nguyendot Posts: 3,594
    edited December 2009
    Symantec Backup Exec :)
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  • Gadabout
    Gadabout Posts: 1,072
    edited December 2009
    tcrossma wrote: »
    I use Ghost 14 and am quite pleased. Ghost has had some good and some bad releases over the years, but this one is good.

    I probably had one of the first versions of ghost. It drove me crazy as it always kept the HD spinning doing something in the background. Would also cause some lag when I was gaming too. Sounds like they got it figured out.

    I don't have the newest version of Acronis, but the backups are done as an intial image, and then increments are added to it. I've had to use the backup once and it worked flawlessly.

    Scott
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