Monday 17 June 2013

How to Create Windows 7 & Windows 8 Ghost Image


1st Review following things BEFORE YOU START.
(Consider C drive as your Window drive)

1. You have Hiren's Boot CD 10+ version


After download burn Hiren Boot .iso image to a CD using any CD burner. 


2. You must have spare space available on any drive other than C drive or external USB Disk for C drive backup. (Check Properties of C drive for used space)

3. You should be aware that Windows-7 usually installs on two partitions i.e. C partition and a hidden partition (system) see image below:



So you have to make image of both "system" and "C " partitions.

Let's Start making ghost of your windows 7...Follow following steps.

Before you start make sure you have plugged in your external USB drive if you want to creat ghost image on external USB drive.

1. Insert you Hiren's Bootable CD into cd room, reboot and boot your machine from CD ROM. (check your BIOS settings for boot device priority
.
2. At welcom screen of hirens cd select "mini windows xp" option.



3. At welcome screen of hirens cd select "mini windows xp" option. wait until desktop of mini window appears.

4. double click "HBCD Menu icon" on desktop


5. Go to Menu>Backup>Ghost32 (Click, yes, OK)



6. After Ghost starts go to "Local > Partition > To Image"


7. Select your Hard disk from the list where on which your windows 7 is installed & press OK.



8. Now Select your Window-7 Partition i.e. C parition from the list & press ok.
Note: You will see a primary partition named "System" at top of partition list which may be about 100 to 200 mb in size.

9. Brows to the loaction where you want to save your window's ghost image, give name to the image and press save. (select any compression option i.e. No/Fast/High. I use No). After clicking NO proceed with yes.


10. Image creation starts with percentage. After 100% completed click continue.


Ghost of C drive has been completed.
Now you have to make ghost of "system" partition same as you have made ghost of C drive.
To create image of "system" partition follow step 1 to 8 then select "system" partition from the list and follow step 9 to 10.
(So you have image of two partitions i.e. "system" & "C" partition for windows 7 image backup).


That's all creating windows-7 ghost. (Please Put Your Comments....Thanks. UMANG PATEL)

No comments:

Post a Comment