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Anything better than Norton Ghost?

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powerMarkymark

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I use Norton Ghost on both my rigs to backup my OS drives..................works like a charm, never a problem retoring a ghosted image..............so far.

But.............is there something better/more reliable than Norton Ghost?

TIA

Mark
 
Thanks BlueWeasel for the heads up, I also have heard of Drive Image. But I would like to hear from some people with hands on experience using alternatives to Norton Ghost.

Thanks.

Mark.
 
I use DriveImage, and think it's great. But if Ghost is working well for you, I see no reason to switch unless there's a feature in DriveImage you'd like to have.
 
I've used both as well and I haven't had a problem with either (though i have much more experience with Ghost). The good thing about DriveImage over Ghost though is that Ghost needs to boot off a DOS boot floppy while DriveImage can run off windows. As such, driveimage also remembers any preferences or settings you had whereas Ghost booting of a boot disk will not because it doesnt save any preference information.
Older versions of Ghost had problems with XP too and I only use XP and win 2k now. Still, I gotta admit I use still use Ghost (on XP), but only because I am so used to it and I know it's never failed me. But, if I were to recommend one over the other, I'd probably recommend DriveImage due to the fact that it's a bit easier to use IMO and less potential hassle that I can see.

I just recently used Ghost again to transfer the contents of my 1 partition 60 gig HD onto a new 80gig with 2 partitions of 40/40. It put the used contents of the 60 gig partition (35gb used) onto the 40 gig partition with no problems and this was my main bootup. I've been running that copied XP with no reinstall for weeks and no problems.
 
Originally posted by: JackBurton
I've used DriveImage and Ghost, and I like Ghost better.
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Same here. The only thing that really irritates me about ghost is the fact that I have to enter the fvcking serial number every time I use it.:|
 
DriveImage beats Ghost hands down. I've used both extensively. DriveImage can be used from Windows as dakels described but it can also be run from a boot disk like Ghost which is still completely necessary in an emergency situation where you can't get into Windows.

DI can also be set to run automatically unattended.

But then again, why would you want to switch from something that is working well for you?
 
I've also used both pretty extensively. At home and in a corporate environment.

I think that drive image has a MUCH better GUI. It also has the incredibly handy ability to set up an image while in windows, then reboot the computer right into the imaging software w/o using a boot disk! It's so wonderful not dealing with floppies or bootable CD's. 😀

Ghost has some "extra" features that are rarely used that can be nice in a corporate environment.

I would recommend both, unless you aren't very good with computers. Then I'd recommend DriveImage because the GUI is much friendlier. Also the no floppies feature really does it for me. I think you can buy DriveImage in a package with PartitionMagic now, which of course is the gold standard for partitioning. That might be the way to go if you don't own PartitionMagic and you'd like that too.
 
Same here. The only thing that really irritates me about ghost is the fact that I have to enter the fvcking serial number every time I use it.
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No serial to enter in Ghost 7.5. 🙂

The way I have Ghost set up at home is when I need to reimage, my machine boots off the NIC and hits the Ghost server and pulls down my image. No floppies and no extra space taken up on my local machine to store the image. 🙂 I can also boot off my NIC and push an image up to the server. Oh yes, Ghost rocks!
 
Based on a tip by Robisc, I checked up on TrueImage by Acronis.

Two unique advantages offered with Acronis TrueImage:
1. Image the OS partition from within Windows (restoring OS image partition must be by boot disk).
2. Write and restore images to/from USB devices (using LINUX boot disk instead of DOS).

TrueImage appears to lack a scheduler.

Priced right, $44 I think.

$9.99 price incentive offer for those who can substantiate Ghost ownership, but that requires that TrueImage be run with either Norton Ghost or SystemWorks also resident on the system.

Several reviews on the net (ZDNET, etc.).

 
I haven't used any imaging software other than Ghost, and it's worked fine for me.

The one serious functional criticism I have of Ghost is that, by default, Ghost checks image integrity with only simple CRC check. On two occasions, spanned-CD images that were reported OK by CRC error test failed the more comprehensive image integrity check (Local/Check/Image on boot disk menu).

In both instances, the spanned-CD images were of the OS partition. If I'd attempted to restore from those images, my system partition would be hosed!
 
Originally posted by: JackBurton
The way I have Ghost set up at home is when I need to reimage, my machine boots off the NIC and hits the Ghost server and pulls down my image. No floppies and no extra space taken up on my local machine to store the image. 🙂 I can also boot off my NIC and push an image up to the server. Oh yes, Ghost rocks!
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While you spent all your time setting up a ghost server on another machine, as well as the custom "boot from NIC" (forgot the technical term for that) setup, I just clicked "reboot" in DriveImage to have it automatically start in DriveImage.

Which do you think is easier? 😛

And DriveImage also has PowerCast, so it will do the advanced "ghostserver" style stuff as well.

 
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