Greetings -
I am new to these forums and I am trying to find my way around still. Hopefully this is the correct place to post this request for help. If I posted in the wrong area I apologise.
I am supporting some industrial equipment with ancient PC hardware (Win2000 / floppy disks / IDE disks / IDE DVD Burner). I need a backup solution that would allow me to recovery from cold naked metal. The PCs are not connected to a network.
My need is to irregularly (2 times every year?) make a complete image of the PCs hard disk. All the current off the shelf software has all sorts of features that I cannot use / do not want. The solution I want would allow the following:
1) Boot from backup software (either floppy disk or bootable CD / DVD)
2) Image complete hard disk to DVDs
When recover is required
1) Boot from backup software (either floppy disk or bootable CD / DVD)
2) Restore backup to naked hard disk
I think the last version of Norton Ghost that worked this simply is 8.3 (part of Symantec Ghost Solution Suite 1.1??)
I would appreciate it if someone would tell me that I am wrong and there is a current product that will provide this solution without "installing" the software into Windows.
Thanks for your attention