Taking an Image

Hi,

I have built my home Vista PC which is now running as required with all the
software I need. For speed of future restores (If eveer required!) how can I
best take an image of the system?

Thanks.

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Simon Harris wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have built my home Vista PC which is now running as required with all
> the software I need. For speed of future restores (If eveer required!)
> how can I best take an image of the system?

What version if Vista are you running? If you are using Vista Business,
Enterprise or Ultimate, it includes a utility to create a complete PC image
backup. See
http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/Win...b6baf1033.mspx
for more info on that.

If you are using a version of Vista that does not include the ability to
create a complete image based backup, I look the Image utilities available
at http://www.bootitng.com.
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Tom Porterfield

Thanks Tom, I will check them out.

Simon.
"Tom Porterfield" <tpporter@mvps.org> wrote in message
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> Simon Harris wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have built my home Vista PC which is now running as required with all
>> the software I need. For speed of future restores (If eveer required!)
>> how can I best take an image of the system?
>
> What version if Vista are you running? If you are using Vista Business,
> Enterprise or Ultimate, it includes a utility to create a complete PC
> image backup. See
> http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/Win...b6baf1033.mspx
> for more info on that.
>
> If you are using a version of Vista that does not include the ability to
> create a complete image based backup, I look the Image utilities available
> at http://www.bootitng.com.
> --
> Tom Porterfield