Making an ISO of my HDD

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INTELCRAZY

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I would like to make an ISO of my hard drive for backup reasons, is this possible with MagicISO? I don't feel like paying $50 for Norton's Ghost when I can do the same thing with a little know-how. If possible, then how?



Thanks
 
nowadays you can only ghost hard drives to hard drives not to ISO, reason for this is because iso will probably run while windows is up, some some very protected system files wont be able to copy.
why not make a HD to HD backup ?
 
patrickv said:
nowadays you can only ghost hard drives to hard drives not to ISO, reason for this is because iso will probably run while windows is up, some some very protected system files wont be able to copy.
why not make a HD to HD backup ?
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I was going to compress this on an older HDD and use it if I ever had to... You sure this isn't possible... Then, what does Norton Ghost do?
 
sure it is possible, get a live cd of linux and have both hard drives in. then lets say the hd you want to backup is hda1 and the other is hdb1. just do
Code: 
dd if=/dev/hda1 of=/dev/hdb1
 
brianmay27 said:
sure it is possible, get a live cd of linux and have both hard drives in. then lets say the hd you want to backup is hda1 and the other is hdb1. just do
Code: 
dd if=/dev/hda1 of=/dev/hdb1
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actually the main point of this thread was that he wanted HD to ISO
so i told him its a bit not possible
 
patrickv said:
it also includes backing up to cd/dvd roms but you can't put an OS on a cd/dvd rom
lol
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We ghosted all of the computers in High-school, like if we got in different models, we would make a universal Ghost copy for them.... I helped the network admin and IT ppl do it, I got paid $10/hr, which was decent in high school
 
INTELCRAZY said:
We ghosted all of the computers in High-school, like if we got in different models, we would make a universal Ghost copy for them.... I helped the network admin and IT ppl do it, I got paid $10/hr, which was decent in high school
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nice, can you give me some money now ?:P:P
 
Yes, I just want to back up my HDD on something smaller than another HDD until I get another HDD, make sure and read that sentence twice, it's confusing.
 
INTELCRAZY said:
Yes, I just want to back up my HDD on something smaller than another HDD until I get another HDD, make sure and read that sentence twice, it's confusing.
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so what can be smaller than a HDD,a dvd-r ? a usb device ? another smaller hard drive..depends !!
 
patrickv said:
same thing as Acronis true image just clones to hard drive nothing else
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patrickv said:
actually the main point of this thread was that he wanted HD to ISO
so i told him its a bit not possible
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Norton Ghost can make an image of your hard drive and store it as an image file, which can be transfered via CD, DVD, hard drive, flash drive, etc, (as long as the device can hold that much information).
 
[-0MEGA-];741811 said:
Norton Ghost can make an image of your hard drive and store it as an image file, which can be transfered via CD, DVD, hard drive, flash drive, etc, (as long as the device can hold that much information).
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yeah, but can I do it without Ghost? I would like to put it on an 8Gb flash drive. I have a 250Gb and used 91.8Gb.
 
o wait. sorry ya just got your point patrickv... i messed up to code :D if he wants a iso an has another drive it is

Code: 
mount /dev/hdb1 /mnt
dd if=/dev/hda1 of=/mnt/backup.iso
 
INTELCRAZY said:
yeah, but can I do it without Ghost? I would like to put it on an 8Gb flash drive. I have a 250Gb and used 91.8Gb.
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good luck... NO conpresion will be able to fit on 8 gb from 91. no way. best way. get blu-ray. dule layerd and split the file into 2
 
[-0MEGA-];741811 said:
Norton Ghost can make an image of your hard drive and store it as an image file, which can be transfered via CD, DVD, hard drive, flash drive, etc, (as long as the device can hold that much information).
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wow, i didn't know it can make IMAGES, then again the only location to store that huge image is on a hard drive...unless the person wanted to backup files only, not the OS
 
patrickv said:
wow, i didn't know it can make IMAGES, then again the only location to store that huge image is on a hard drive...unless the person wanted to backup files only, not the OS
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No, we backed everything up to a bootable CD with Ghost... Are you guys sure there isn't another way?
 
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