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Making Complete Bootable Image on DVD

I have asked this before and the solutions I accepted have not worked or I didnt know what I was doing. I want a Bootable clone image of my C:\ on my laptop that is stored on DVD. I know it will probably take 3 or 4 dvds but that doesnt matter. any easy sugeestion. I have windows 7 home premium and Norton 360 for AV

willcomp

What do you want to do?

a) Be able to boot your Win7 installation from a DVD

or

b) burn a restorable image to DVDs

If it's a, then it's not possible AFIK.

justyn8490

Hmmm well I'll just suggest something even though I doubt it is what you are looking for:
1) Make an Acronis image, and burn it to DVD, you can boot from the DVD to the acronis loader then reimage from the discs image.

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lancecurwensville

Have you looked into driveimage xml?

Short version....download/install. Choose system backup, destination optical drive, being sure to select split large files. It uses VSS to create an image of your HD. When you want to restore, you will need to download BartPE with the driveimagexml add-in. Boot w/ that disc, then choose restore. I have done this successfully dumping the image to a portable hard drive, and I believe from reading the FAQ's on driveimage's website that it will work from dvd media also.

FireW0lf

Sorry tcands, not possible

While there are ways to create a Windows installation that is bootable from CD/DVD, you cannot do this with a standard install

If you want a second copy of your current OS that is bootable, you would need to dump an image of your main OS onto a spare HDD

Then when you want to switch, just power down, switch HDD's, power up, off you go. Almost as easy as inserting a DVD and rebooting, depending on how easy it is to access your internal HDD (mine is 1 screw)