moderated Re: Accessible System Backup Image software, (WAS) the latest update to jaws 2020 giving me a fit
David Griffith
I hesitate to enter the discussion again in case I provoke Brian into one of his threatened screams which seems a strangely emotional response. Specifically in relation to the points made the clone of your OS can be surprisingly small, in the Snapshot case between 20-30GB in my case – although I have all my data on separate drives from my SSD. By the way the claim that you would only want an image restore in the case of catastrophic failure is I think a strange claim. I don’t know why developers would include the feature if this was true. I have several times re-imaged Windows from within a bootable Windows for many different reasons.
However if there is truly a solution which provides support for catastrophic failure as helpfully suggested earlier I like others would be keen to investigate this as it could be a money saver avoiding the need to employ sighted help.
David Griffith
From: main@jfw.groups.io <main@jfw.groups.io> On Behalf Of Marie
Sent: 03 May 2020 19:47 To: main@jfw.groups.io Subject: Re: Accessible System Backup Image software, (WAS) the latest update to jaws 2020 giving me a fit
How much space do you need to store the full system backup? I know this depends on what you have on your disk but just for example, say you are using just under 500GB.
Marie
From: David Griffith Sent: Sunday, May 3, 2020 9:57 AM Subject: Re: Accessible System Backup Image software, (WAS) the latest update to jaws 2020 giving me a fit
I use a solution which is I suppose is 3/4 accessible. Snapshot will allow a fully accessible disc image backup. Provided you can get into Windows at all the restore of the image is also a fully accessible. You simply select the image you want to restore to and Snapshot will simply restart your computer and about 20 minutes later you will hear your screen reader announce your Windows login for the restored image. I have done this several times with success without sighted help. Where it falls down is if your system is in such a state it cannot boot into Windows. The developers provide an ISO file to create a bootable CD drive but of course there is no speech here on that disc. They did tell me what I needed to type once the CD loaded to restore windows but in practice in these situations I have always resorted to sighted help and a fresh windows install. David Griffith
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