Is there any software that can.....

[ryan711]

make an exact image of your harddrive so if you screw it up you just restore it to the image on cd. Kind of like restore disks. If you don't know what i'm talking about look at this. http://www.alienware.com/Configurator_Pages/Details_Pages/Static_Pages/about_alienrespawn.aspx something like that.

 

[Triple6]

I use Norton Ghost for doing that, it can write images or do clones to just about any type of media.

Here's a list of similar applications: http://www.buildorbuy.org/driveimaging.html

 

[Fredledingue]

That would be cool, but that would require 2 CDs per Giga...

 

[Triple6]

Or you could just use DVD's or a secondary hard drive or partition. Ghost can span images over several CD/DVD disc's and compress the image as well to save space.

 

[Freddy4Toes]

So, I guess the question is: Is there a utility to image a 120gb HD to a one 3-1/2 floppy? The answer is "NO"

 

[DVOM]

With Ghost's compression you can get slightly more that 1GB on a single CD.

Also, the number of CD's depends on how much data there is on the drive, not how big the drive is.

 

[GrumpyHermit]

If you have a recordable DVD drive, you should be able to get most of your data on one DVD, unless you have that hard drive loaded up.