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by givensdn

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When re-imaging a hard drive, what kind of media is a backup image placed on (3.5 floppy, CD, Jazz Drive) and how is it placed on it.

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by wanabedrsean

I personally like cd and the imaging software I like the most is ghost6.0 or above. if it is a large image you can split it up into chunks that fit onto several cd's and make a boot disk with ghost on it and cdrom support and you can restore the image any time you want

by ann777

Most often people use Ghost and image to one or more cd-rom's.

You can used any media you want... including all of those you mention above plus space on a network server shared for this purpose.

As far as how it is placed, Ghost creates two files ... xxx.gho and xxx.ghs

When you want to restore from the image you run ghostexp.exe and it pulls up the entire directory and subdirs that is on your image. Then you highlight and restore from image those files that you want.

Your flexibility with this software is unlimited. It's a great timesaver.

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