Paul wrote on 7/18/2015 10:02 PM:
Cy Burnot wrote:
Paul wrote on 7/18/2015 8:10 PM:
Cy Burnot wrote:
Paul wrote on 7/18/2015 3:54 PM:
Cy Burnot wrote:
Paul wrote on 7/18/2015 10:12 AM:
Alek wrote:
Do you use recimg?

How does it compare with other imaging programs?
I guess I wasn't clear. I have EASEUS and and Reflect for making images.

Would using recimg have any advantage over either of those?

Thanks.
If you're on an SSD, don't make one.

OK, why not?

(BTW, I think you're answering a different question than the one I
asked. :-)

If you're on a hard drive, you have space to burn,
so go ahead. When it's finished, have a look to see
what it saved.

Interesting suggestion! How does one see what's in an image?

It's for reinstalling the OS, and saving time on installing your programs.

Don't all imaging programs do that?


Most people with SSDs have "range anxiety".
They don't want their "precious" to be used to
hold crap. This is crap. People who spend all day
running CCleaner to save a couple megabytes, those
are the people who *freak* when a topic like this
comes up. We got people who run with 64GB drives,
so space is at a premium.

No idea why you wrote the above.

The recimg is not a "backup". It's a custom OS installer,
with just enough stuff to put your programs back. It
doesn't have your letter to grandma in it. When the OS
is borked, you use that recimage to "refresh" C:\Windows
and C:\Program Files. It's not for reloading C:\users\username.

Aha! Thanks.

My tool of choice for poking stuff, is 7ZIP. 7ZIP can now open
bitmap images of disk drives. It can open a VHD file (such as
one made by Windows Backup in Win7). It can open a .wim file
but (not currently) an .esd file. You try "open" or "open inside"
and see if a file system is visible. In this case, it would be
natural if the recimg made a .wim, but that's what you're going
to find out, as an intrepid researcher :-)

Didn't know that about 7-Zip. Thanks.