whocares wrote:

@S.Z.C.: why an Image if he backups unwanted stuff with this ? Normal databackup & maybe exporting/saving settings, mails,bookmarks etc would be imho better and just for this, i don't see the need to format

Because… we, at my company always do that. It’s much easier and faster than doing manual backup :wink:

On the other hand, no one said he should restore that image later on freshly installed Windows. When I install Windows from the scratch and I need some personal stuff from my old image file, I use Ghost Explorer. Of course, some people didn’t even bother to find out how GE could be useful (not anyone particular, but in general, many people just use Ghost and nothing else, that’s why I’m pointing to that). You open your image file, just like some zip file, and you’ll see your whole old partition right in front of you. Best of all, you can extract just data you want and need. No one said he has to restore whole image, but it’s always good to have it as backup, just in case something goes terribly wrong with his new installation… in that case he can just restore whole partition and - voila :wink: Can’t make any worse, he still has those problems, right ?

For example, open your image file in ghost explorer, just go to your IE FAVORITES, mark them all and right click on one of them… choose extract, point to your new FAVORITES directory on your freshly installed partition, and your Explorer is filled with your original Favorites… no need to go through long lasting and sometimes painful job, to make them all over again. Same thing with My Documents, or any other folder on your HD.

Cheers !