Image of Nuvi drive

Why? When you can just copy files or a folder including the Nuvi root folder?

Did you try it? did you try to put files back after formating Nuvi drive?

No I have no reason to reformat my Nuvi nor should anyone else unless the storage is corrupt! I am sure that formatting your nuvi will make a brick until you contact Garmin for the recovery software. The Nuvi Mass Storage Device software MUST be working on your Nuvi or your PC can not communicate to it. Once you use the recovery software from garmin the Nuvi Mass Storage Device would be seen by your PC allowing you to copy files including the Nuvi OS install files.

I have copied/deleted files on my Nuvi from my PC using the Mass Storage Device driver. This allows you to copy/delete any files. So may I ask why you want to use an image since it buys you nothing over just copy/delete ... um other then the chance making your Nuvi a brick?

I accidently formatted my Nuvi 750. Since I had made a backup, I just copied it back into the Nuvi and all is well.

The question was: can i use image file ( Ghost for example) witch is created from normal functional device and of course included all necessary files with OS also for recovery purposes in case/if/when my storage files been corrupted?

I use Acronis True Image and no you can't do a image backup as the nuvi does not show up as a 'Disk', probably because it isn't a hard drive (it does show as a drive on Windows Explorer). Ghost is a take-off of Drive Image that Symantec bought from PowerQuest a few years back. Drive Image also would not allow images to be created of non hard drive devices. I assume Ghost will operate the same.

RT

Interesting what you remember -- I used Ghost in 1996. The company I was working at/for used it from it's very early days. I could have sworn it was sold by a company called Ghostware - equally, I could have sworn they were based in the UK.

However http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norton_Ghost says not - the date agrees, but it says Binary Research in Auckland NZ.

At least the year's plausible.

Time playing tricks on my mind again

May be more than one Ghost programs. Here is the one I was speaking of:
http://shop.symantecstore.com/store/symnahho/en_US/DisplayPr...

http://www.symantec.com/press/2004/n040802.html

I know that Powerquest was bought by Symantec because I was using their backup software at the time and didn't go to Symantec's Ghost because it required Microsoft's net framework to operate ... so I switched ti Acronis (.net framework is no big deal now). Symantec had Ghost before it bought PowerQuest, but wanted to incorporate some of Drive Images features. No better way to get them than to buy them ... if you got the money.

Do a Google for 'Symantec Buys PowerQuest'. Symantec sells Partition Magic, also obtained from PowerQuest.

We're getting off of the original question:
*Drive Image did not allow image backups of non hard drive devices.
*Acronis True Image does not allow image backups of non hard drive devices.
*Since Ghost incorporates many of Drive Images features, I'd assume Ghost operates the same.

RT