OS Image query. Can USB Image be bootable?

m-jeri

m-jeri

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Hi.

So I have an Ghost Image with me. In a pen drive. Can i make that bootable? Instead of restoring the image?

Or copy that to a HDD and connect the HDD to that machine alone and boot it up.

What I want is to avoid the restore image process. Imaging is already done. Now i just want to make it bootable in USB or HDD.

Thanks.
 
I think I wasnt clear enough.

I have a windows 7 machine. Installed OS, required application also installed, Few control panel settings for the machine also done. Used Ghost to create a OS Image. I have it in a pen drive. What I usually do is boot from it and then follow the restore Image process. Spend around 10 or 15 minutes for it.

What I am trying to do is. Boot from that pen drive. Or if i can copy or save the Image to a hard disk and boot from that itself.
 
Ok. But I am finding many places with bits bits info saying its possible. Hence the search. Do you know anywhere its saying its not possible for definite?
 
If you use RMPrepUSB tool and make USB drive bootable,then you can load an ISO file(if symantec or Norton Ghost has a recovery disk).Then you can run the backup file. I have used this method for RDRive backup reinstall.Worked well.
 
do you mean if you can use the image created by ghost as a Live-USB or something?
if you are, then the answer is it can't be done.
Backup and restore is not a simple Rar and UnRar process as you may have inferred.
so there is no way to work around the 15 minute restore process.

However some Backup and recovery solutions like Paragon would let you create a Virtual Disk(.vdi) from your backup image and would let you use it as a Virtual Machine.
if you are willing to work around a little you may even find a way to make the (.vdi) image bootable :)
but it would still be a virtual image.
 
Yes. Live USB is what I was trying to do.

Can you please tell more about this VDI and how to make it bootable.
 
MS Windows is the best option when it comes to mounting backups (created by windows) as virtual hard disks. It's very handy when you want to extract few files from a windows restore point or backup.
 
My intend is not backup. But tinkering.

My work right now involves some application perf stat test on a machine. I have the Image and can restore easily. But ~20 minute delay each time i want to see a fresh machine performance. :( :(. So wondering if I can just copy the image to one drive and boot from it directly. I have multiple machines to do this. So thought give it a try.
 
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