04-21-2009, 04:31 PM
Ghost or Acronis.True Image will create a restorable image. I prefer Ghost because that is what I know, but others swear by Acronis. I'll probably look into it someday.
With Ghost you save the drive image to another partition or an external drive. Then, after you screw up the computer, you boot using the restore CD which is just a Linux Live CD more or less which guides you through selecting the backup image, selecting the restore location, and then multiple warnings 'that restoring the image will permanently remove any changes made to the drive since the image was created blah blah blah...' Just takes a few minutes depending on the size of the image.
With Ghost you save the drive image to another partition or an external drive. Then, after you screw up the computer, you boot using the restore CD which is just a Linux Live CD more or less which guides you through selecting the backup image, selecting the restore location, and then multiple warnings 'that restoring the image will permanently remove any changes made to the drive since the image was created blah blah blah...' Just takes a few minutes depending on the size of the image.