Small Business Tech » image http://www.smallbusinesstech.co.uk Advice to help you save money, time and be more productive. Fri, 03 Feb 2012 13:03:23 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Microsoft Windows 7 rc – Burn an iso (cd / dvd image) http://www.smallbusinesstech.co.uk/microsoft-windows-7-rc-burn-an-iso-cd-dvd-image/ http://www.smallbusinesstech.co.uk/microsoft-windows-7-rc-burn-an-iso-cd-dvd-image/#comments Thu, 03 Sep 2009 15:33:54 +0000 Andrew http://www.smallbusinesstech.co.uk/?p=674 So I had downloaded my Microsoft Windows 7 Enterprise 90 day trial iso dvd image, but needed to burn it.  Turns out in Microsoft 7 RC it’s even easier than usual.

1. I already had my blank dvd inserted, so in Windows Explorer I navigated to the location of the iso image.

2. I right clicked on the image and selected ‘Burn disc Image’.

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3. I ticked ‘Verify disc after burning’.

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4. Selected ‘burn’.

How easy was that?!

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So what is Ping? Ping stands for ‘Partimage Is Not Ghost’. It enables you to create images of partitions for backup and restoring like Symantec’s Ghost package. However Ping is absolutely free.

Doing a backup and restore of a partition image takes up less time than actually installing an operating system, software and placing your files back. Saves you all the extra configuration time also. Ideal as ‘part’ of a backup procedure.

Perhaps a good use for ping is when a computer is setup with a clean install of an operating system & drivers. Then when required a restore of the fresh install would be effortless and quick to implement. For me I just wanted to try out the new Windows 7 RC, but restore my old system very quickly.

So here are some rough steps and details of what I did:

  1. I made sure my backup of important files had taken place before I began.

  2. Downloaded the ping iso (23mbytes).

  3. The iso is a cd image, I then burnt to a 700mb cd. Software like imgburn, nero, brasero etc will all be able to burn the image to a cd.

  4. I made sure the laptop was set to boot from cd and booted using the ping cd.

  5. I have two partitions on my laptops hard drive and I chose to backup the primary partition to the second. However I noticed it recognized my usb hard drive, so could of used that and I believe there are other options.

  6. Following ping’s instructions even without looking at the available documentation was easy. It is text based, but well laid out.

  7. Around 6gigs of actual data on a 20gig partition, took up around 3.7gig of space and took under an hour.

So how about restoring?

  1. Again I booted up using the ping cd.

  2. I choose to restore a partition and choose the location and specific backup I had created.

  3. Under 20 minutes later the whole partition was restored.

So where do I go next?

http://ping.windowsdream.com/

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