Toby Burnett wrote: > > What size do these image programs make the image? Do they really work > in the event of total system failure? It is a rather old PC here also > and I think doing anything like this is going to cripple it. Sorry to > high jack the thread but seems a good topic for all of us.
The image is compressed by default but essentially holds all of the information on the original disk drive plus some info it needs about the backup, etc. You can opt for no compression (faster) or more compression (saves space, slower) but I have only used the default compression option. Earlier this week at work I made an image of a 40GB drive that had about 30GB used. The image size on the file server is 17GB. It took around an hour to create the image. In general the disk images are good for restoring broken or infected hard drives. When you change motherboards or go to an entire new system the image you've saved is not set up to work with different motherboard chip sets, network interfaces, video, etc. I have not tried it but would be surprised if it worked. Tim, N9PUZ
