And I say again - Ghost 2003 is the slowest software on earth

[EyeMWing]

1 hr even to create a valid image - after 3 tries.

TWO HOURS SOLID to restore. Un-friggin-acceptable.

 

[Miramonti]

its not too slow for me, how many gigs and what compression are you using?

btw theres a software forum.

 

[0roo0roo]

ugh, what size partition. i keep my os partition below 5gb and it takes 15 minutes or less. os partition shouldn't contain junk

 

[kt]

You know imaging software is for imaging/restoring clean OS right? Not as a backup. If you want to backup your data, use a BACKUP software. Imaging/restoring Ghost images only take me about 5 minutes for a 5Gb partition.

 

[polm]

SMARTDRV

 

[iamwiz82]

Do you ever stop whining?

 

[Nitemare]

You think that's slow. Wait til you see Ghost 2004

 

[Danman]

Originally posted by: iamwiz82
Do you ever stop whining?

No.

 

[CraigRT]

i just use whatever older version of ghost.. i think i have a corp. version

works OK for me!

 

[dartworth]

Originally posted by: Nitemare
You think that's slow. Wait til you see Ghost 2004

Is Demi and Pat in this one too? Or is it like a directors cut?

 

[MustISO]

Drive Image Pro is pretty damn fast.

 

[Nitemare]

Originally posted by: dartworth

Originally posted by: Nitemare
You think that's slow. Wait til you see Ghost 2004

Is Demi and Pat in this one too? Or is it like a directors cut?

Bennifer is in this one. It's about 2 has beens that make movies but the theaters are ghost towns.

 

[EyeMWing]

Originally posted by: kt
You know imaging software is for imaging/restoring clean OS right? Not as a backup. If you want to backup your data, use a BACKUP software. Imaging/restoring Ghost images only take me about 5 minutes for a 5Gb partition.

Yes. This is a clean deployment of OS and software. This is a 9700mb NTFS partition and 300mb FAT32 partition on a 10gb disk - for a total of 5 gigs of data. There are only three options I can find for it being so ungodly slow - the old IDE bus (These are Dell GX1's - they're AT LEAST ATA66 and running ATA133 cabling), the drives being ungodly slow (They're 10gb Maxtors - what the heck was the refurb joint thinking?), or Ghost being ungodly slow. Considering my experience with ATA66 and similar drives and actual throughput on those combinations - it has to be Ghost's fault. And there is NO excuse for creating the image being FASTER than restoring it.

 

[FelixDeCat]

Your dumb. I use it to back up 4.3gb at 1200 megabytes per min. Takes 3 mins. Pent4 1.6a ovc to 2.1ghz. 512mb pc 2700. NTFS file system.

You want slow, try the previous version of ghost. Max speed with same box was 200 megabytes per min. Also was using FAT32.


So STFU.

 

[GeekDrew]

Where are you ghosting to/from? You said what you were using, but not what process. I have used ghost routinely on a network... including 2003. Just a couple of days ago I was doing that... it took absolutely FOREVER to get it to ghost/image from 1 drive to another on the same IDE controller... (not bus, controller). It took even longer to ghost from 1 partition to another partition on the same drive.

The interesting part? It took less time to ghost from one machine to another over a 10/100 network connection.

 

[EyeMWing]

Originally posted by: FelixDeKat
Your dumb. I use it to back up 4.3gb at 1200 megabytes per min. Takes 3 mins. Pent4 1.6a ovc to 2.1ghz. 512mb pc 2700. NTFS file system.

You want slow, try the previous version of ghost. Max speed with same box was 200 megabytes per min. Also was using FAT32.


Otherwise STFU.

These are P3-800's with either 256 or 384mb of PC133. But manually setting up Windows and installing the software would take less.

 

[EyeMWing]

Originally posted by: GeekDrew
Where are you ghosting to/from? You said what you were using, but not what process. I have used ghost routinely on a network... including 2003. Just a couple of days ago I was doing that... it took absolutely FOREVER to get it to ghost/image from 1 drive to another on the same IDE controller... (not bus, controller). It took even longer to ghost from 1 partition to another partition on the same drive.

The interesting part? It took less time to ghost from one machine to another over a 10/100 network connection.

To CDR. From CDR. Bastages don't have the LAN working yet - and all the cabling has been complete wall jacks installed for 3 months. They just refuse to put in the switches. Unless that thing gets fired up soon, I'm looking at 15 hours of standing around and waiting.