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Gillian Densmore

bootable backup of windows?

Greetings!

Anyone have recommendations of software that can make a bootable windows backup? I'm looking for one that can do so to a USB Drive-

Like is there something like OmniDisk or Diskutility from Mac land?

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Sarbajit Roy (testing)

Re: bootable backup of windows?

RUFUS
http://rufus.akeo.ie/

On 10/4/14, Gillian Densmore <[hidden email]> wrote:
> Greetings!
> Anyone have recommendations of software that can make a bootable windows
> backup? I'm looking for one that can do so to a USB Drive-
> Like is there something like OmniDisk or Diskutility from Mac land?
>

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Nick Thompson

Re: bootable backup of windows?

In reply to this post by Gillian Densmore

Anybody,

Is a bootable backup the same as an “image”?

Nicholas S. Thompson

Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology

Clark University

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From: Friam [mailto:[hidden email]] On Behalf Of Owen Densmore
Sent: Saturday, October 04, 2014 12:38 PM
To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] bootable backup of windows?

A bootable backup for me (Mac) means SuperDuper or Carbon Copy Cloner which have an option to make the backup disk bootable .. i.e. when booting, hold down a magic key and the boot program gives you the choice of which device to boot from.

This is especially lovely when a disk goes bad .. you can literally replace the bad one with the backup. Yes, you'll be missing some work done since the backup, but Dropbox and others take care of that. Lets you backup at a reasonable interval (week?) or when you do system updates (new OS, new Apps, etc)

-- Owen

On Fri, Oct 3, 2014 at 5:51 PM, Gary Schiltz <[hidden email]> wrote:

Not sure what you mean by “bootable backup”. For something where you can boot into a full OS (Linux) from CD and then restore to the bare metal of a hard drive (even including Windows systems), I’ve had good luck with Redo Backup and Recovery (http://redobackup.org/).

On Friday, October 3, 2014, Gillian Densmore <[hidden email]> wrote:
> Greetings!
> Anyone have recommendations of software that can make a bootable windows backup? I'm looking for one that can do so to a USB Drive-
> Like is there something like OmniDisk or Diskutility from Mac land?
>
>
>

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