A good alternative to Nortons Ghost??

[fixxxer0]

Ghost isn't working for me for some reason, followed everything correctly, when I try to boot it freezes on the windowlogo.

Whats another good program to use to completely mirror a hard drive for backup purposes ??

 

[theMan]

acronis true image.

 

[Evander]

I personally use acronis as well, but see the freeware thread for a couple options that I just posted:
http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview...adid=997283&STARTPAGE=11&enterthread=y

 

[HeroOfPellinor]

How about for servers? Acronis?

 

[fbrdphreak]

Originally posted by: theman
acronis true image.

Thirded. I love Acronis

 

[Doh!]

Originally posted by: HeroOfPellinor
How about for servers? Acronis?

Acronis TrueImage Server works good.

 

[Iano]

Are you running SATA? Ghost 2003 (Not sure about 9/10) will freeze on SATA unless you use the -noide switch when loading.

 

[Tarrant64]

Ghost can be tricky with Windows. As Iano mentioned, you have to pay attention to to what switches to use depending on setup and hard drives.
See Switches Here: Ghost Switches
It is indeed a pain in the ass, however when knowledable, Ghost definetely is worth it.

If it's locking up on the Windows logo? What exactly were you doing when this happened? It may be that something has been corrupted(say partitions or the MBR). If they aren't setup properly(I think in particular the MBR), windows will not boot correctly, as you are seeing.

 

[BW86]

Originally posted by: theman
acronis true image.

yep :thumbsup:

 

[sourceninja]

I've always just used dd.

 

[AmigaMan]

http://www.runtime.org/dixml.htm

 

[fixxxer0]

thanks guys, much appreciated as always