

Linux is not supported as boot environment. Note that you must have a Windows PE boot environment to create a Live Capture of a disk image. If you want to create a disk image while a computer is running, please assign the Drive Snapshot Live Capture package (from the Software Library's eScripts folder) to the reference computer.

Creating A Disk Image During Runtime (Live Capture) The reference computer is ready for creating a disk image now. A mini setup programautomatically configures the target computer according to the specifications of the sysprep.inf when it starts up the first time.

The computer is automatically shut down after SysPrep.exe is finished running. This creates an image object on the Business Logic Server (BLS) that contains the compliance information of the software packages installed on the reference computer and that transmits this information to the respective computers.įor more information on NIPrep.exe, refer to the DSM documentation, keyword NIPrep.ģ.Run Microsoft SysPrep: c:\sysprep\sysprep.exe -quiet -reseal -mini -pnp -forceshutdown (Windows XP, Windows 2003) or sysprep.exe /generalize /oobe /unattend:%windir%\system32\sysprep\unattend.xml (fromWindows Vista/Windows Server 2008). Using partition management tools either Windows or third-party tools resize the partition to something smaller than the size of the replacement drive. If your disk starts building up bad clusters (basically falling apart), you can effectively reduse the effect and preserve whatever readable data is on the disk as an image and try to restore data from the image later.2.If your reference computer is already managed with DSM (recommended), please run the NIPrep.exe. Get another hard drive large enough to hold the backup image ideally the same size as the original disk or larger. You can later try to restore deleted files using data recovery utilities like UNDELETE or UNERASER without the risk of overwriting important data on original disk.

In cases where you are dealing with a disk containing accidentally deleted files you can use Disk Image to make an image of the disk (snapshot). You can even copy any specific files or folders from the image to another location.īy using Disk Image you can perform a backup of your PC system to another hard drive or to network server storage and restore it back from there in the event of a system crash or loss of important information. This can save space and increase speed.Ī unique feature of Disk Image is the ability to open disk images and preview files and folders within before image restoration. You can create compressed and non-compressed raw images (containing all the drive's data - a mirror of the drive's surface stored in one or a set of files) as well as compressed data images (containing only the drive's used clusters). DOS-based backup Disk Image is a DOS-based solution designed for the complete backup and restoration of a whole HDD/SSD as well as particular FAT / NTFS partitions and logical drives. User's Guides Disk Image v.2 1.Product Overview 1.1.
