Disk Image for Windows, a tutorial for which is available on the JAWS Users
Audio page, is theoretically accessible as long as you create your backup
image on DVD. IN the tutorial, the backup image occupies only two DVDs.
However,if you have a lot of data to back up including MP3 and video files,
using DVDs to hold it all is very impractical. That's because a
single-layer,single sided DVD,the most common type can store only 4.7gb of
data. A typical, real world backup might contain 30 to 40gb of data, even
in compressed form, which means you would need a lot of DVDs to hold it all.
This could get very messy and cumbersome. So the only practical alternative
is to create the backup image on an external hard drive. But the problem is
that restoring an image from an External drive requires sighted assistance
because you have to use a special boot CD which would not be accessible. I
have successfully created backup images of my C drive using both Paragon
Drive Backup Express and Macrium Reflect, both of which are free, but I
would need sighted help to restore the images using the boot CDs I created.
Needless to say, I have not attempted to reload my system this way yet, but
at least I have the backups ready just in case. There's just no way around
this dilemma.
Gerald
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dan Murphy" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, December 15, 2009 9:23 AM
Subject: [Blind-Computing] Disk imaging programs.
does anyone know of an accessible program for creating a disk image that I
could store as a backup in the event I need to recover from a disaster?
I have heard the subject discussed before on here but never gave it a
thought until recently.
thanks.
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