Cloning the entire HDD to a file

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Cloning the entire HDD to a file

#1 Post by Oren » Sun Apr 13, 2008 9:18 pm

Hello again,

After spending few hours installing Vista, SP1, drivers and tweaking i want to create an image of the entire HDD before installing apps.

I have a USB CD drive and a USB HDD, No docking station.

I have tried with Hiren's boot cd, (did'nt recognize USB HDD) Acronis, and Ghost, all did not recognize USB HDD.

Any ideas?

Tnx in advance.
X61s L7700 1.8 GHz.
4 GB Ocz 800 Mhz
200 GB 7200 16 MB 3 GB/s
Windows XP Professional
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#2 Post by j-dawg » Sun Apr 13, 2008 9:58 pm

What version of Vista have you got?
X61 Tablet - 1.6GHz C2D, SXGA+, 1GB RAM, 100GB HD, Vista Business.

i have other laptops but i'll be honest i never use 'em
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#3 Post by smvp6459 » Sun Apr 13, 2008 10:21 pm

Shrink your main partition. Create a second partition. Format the second partition as FAT32. After you boot into Visat, copy that image from the machine's harddisk to the USB drive for storage.
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#4 Post by Oren » Sun Apr 13, 2008 10:48 pm

smvp6459 wrote:Shrink your main partition. Create a second partition. Format the second partition as FAT32. After you boot into Visat, copy that image from the machine's harddisk to the USB drive for storage.
Fixed the problem, Thanks a lot.
X61s L7700 1.8 GHz.
4 GB Ocz 800 Mhz
200 GB 7200 16 MB 3 GB/s
Windows XP Professional
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