Image drive for windows xp?

Question

hi, does anyone know what the best backing up program for making an exact bootable copy of the operating system with all of its contents is? what I mean is, right now I have formatted my laptop and reinstalled everything back with all the programs I need because it had a virus in it. Now I need to make an entire backup for everything in it but must be bootable so just in case anything goes wrong I can just insert the backup cds and they will then put it back to the way It was when I fixed it. thank you.

By the way.. laptop does not have a floppy disk slot!

Answer 1

You can use windows system restore go to start menu, all progrtams, accesories, system tools, and systemrestore.

I like northon ghost personally. Mine isnt like a full version so i cant back up, but with northon ghost installed i can actually OPEN my image of a hard drive and move some files around.

Answer 2

I hate Norton's other products but Norton's Ghost is pretty simple to use. It will make a zip like file of an entire harddrive typically called a .gho file.  

Answer 3

Yes, good choice to backup, after crash you can recover in minutes.

For this purpose use Nero BackitUp, powerful and easy tool to recover any files, whole drive! etc.. . It will make recovery CD which you can boot it without starting windows even which asks for the backup file.

You can also use windows Automated recovery from start--->accesories--->system tools-----> Backup and then selecting advanced mode and then automated system recovery. It will create ASR floppy diskette and whole backup of the windows drive which you can insert at the boot time after having loaded the Windows XP- CD-ROM and pressing F2 at startup.

Answer 4

go into accessories>system tools> backup. ive never used it before but i know that you can back up your computer so if something happens later, everything can restore itself