Hi group!
I'm new to the group. Not new to computers. (Not sure if that's an advantage or disadvantage.)
Perhaps someone can tell me - before I get completely gung-ho on this project - if this is even possible to accomplish with ImgBurn.
Running WinXP Pro RAID-1 configuration on a pair of SATA drives. (This is the BIOS RAID, common on most modern motherboards - this one's nVidia). RAID-1 protects my system from a HDD failure. I also have a removable IDE drive bay.
But what protects the array from Windows?
I built another system (single SATA HDD) and had some kind of failure - hardware, software, not sure - and the ONLY option, after trying all XP's repair options, including fixmbr, was to reformat the partition and re-install. Done.
As an experiment, I also installed XP and MagicISO on the removable IDE drive. I then made an ISO of the C: SATA drive (4.6GB ISO), and stored it on the D: partition of the SATA drive. I then formatted the C: SATA partition. Yes, blew away the new installation of XP.
Then, booting to the removable IDE drive, I extracted the ISO of the C: SATA partition from the D: SATA partition with MagicISO, placing the extracted image back on C: SATA HDD.
Worked like a charm! Just needed to "clean up" a few things - maybe 15 minutes work.
The "new" project:
I'd like to do something similar with the RAID-1 system - make an ISO of C:, and store it on the removable IDE drive. However, the C: partition has 25GB+ of files on it.
Is it possible to create an ISO this large with ImgBurn? And, also extract it?
Anyone been there?
Thanks in advance,
- Ralph
