Hello Gerald,
You are quite right. I have successfully created a Barts PE
(pre-installation environment) boot disk and added the Drive Image XML
plug-in to it. Active@ Drive Image includes a boot disk creation program.
Image for Windows also include boot disk creation programs. The boot disks
can be made from within Windows. However, as you have said, JAWS can't be
used when restoring a complete image. Once the image is created you can
browse to and extract folders and files from the image back to various
locations. I believe in Drive Image XML and in Active@ Drive Image a person
can restore from within Windows using the restore functions of the program,
except you wouldn't be able to restore a complete image to the drive or
partition that you are using at the time.
I wish we had speech support at the POST or BIOS level.
Take care.
Brian Lee
brianl...@charter.net
----- Original Message -----
From: "Gerald Levy" <bwaylimi...@verizon.net>
To: <jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com>
Sent: Monday, May 25, 2009 12:32 PM
Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] DATA BACKUP AND RESTORE
Brian,
The problem I have with Drive Image XML
(and apparently all other such disk imaging utilities), is that the
restore procedure is hopelessly complicated. If you use this program to
back up your system to an external hard drive, like I wish to do, you have
to create a boot CD in order to restore it, which seems to be a difficult
procedure for a non-techie. I am not aware of any tutorials that provide
step-by -step instructions on how to create and use a boot CD with JAWS.
In fact, there seem to be no tutorials at all on performing a system
recovery using JAWS. From what I have researched, performing a complete
system recovery in the event of a catastrophic crash requires a good deal
of tech-savvy sighted help. How can a blind person use a boot CD without
crucial visual feedback? I have listened to the tutorials for Disk Image
for Windows, but they do not demonstrate the creation and use of a boot
CD, nor explain how to back up to an external hard drive and perform a
system recovery. The lack of such a tutorial suggests to me that even the
exalted geeks on this list may be clueless on how to do this. So, to be
perfectly blunt, it appears that there is really no simple way for an
average blind computer user to back up his entire system. Everyone likes
to talk about how important it is to back up your system, but nobody likes
to talk about how difficult it is to restore it. Am I missing something
here?
Gerald
----- Original Message -----
From: "Brian Lee" <brianl...@charter.net>
To: "JAWSUsers" <jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com>
Sent: Monday, May 25, 2009 2:12 PM
Subject: [JAWS-Users] DATA BACKUP AND RESTORE
Hello,
A couple of weeks ago I wrote a post about the features of a free data
backup program called "Drive Image XML." It is available from
www.runtime.org. I need to make a correction to my post. One of the
things I said was that Drive Image XML would not backup to a network
share. The program will backup to a network place or drive. When in the
step for picking a backup location there is a graphic that is not spoken
by JAWS. Even if you read a current line JAWS does not indicate there is
a graphic but simply reads the default path for the backup. However, if
you route JAWS to PC, move one line under the edit control for the path,
press home key and then move a word to the left, you will find the
graphic. A simulated left mouse button click on the graphic will bring
up the dialog box for browsing and you can browse through the tree
structure to a network shared location.
Another point is that when you first open the program, it seems to not be
accessible. However, the menu bar is accessible at this point and all
choices can be made from the menus. You can also use CTRL+B to start the
backup wizard, CTRL+R to start the restore wizard, and choices for
browsing and other functions are available in the menus.
I also found another program that is JAWS friendly but it is not a free
one. The name of the program is "Active@ Disk Image" and it is available
from www.ntfs.com. It costs $40 but the license allows for installation
on three different computers. The purchased program has a boot disk
creator that is not available in the trial version. I used the trial
version yesterday and backed up just over 100 GB in a little less than
two hours.
I wanted to make the correction about backing up to a network using Drive
Image XML in case some one on the list avoided trying it out based on
that reason.
Take care.
Brian Lee
brianl...@charter.net
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