Drive Image or Ghost????

[Pilsnerpete]

I suddenly realized I was tired of reinstalling windows every month. I don't want to have to use regedit unless I have to anymore! I've had it with turning off services. It's tweaked, now I gotta save it. Which one do you like better? or is there a better one?


Pete

Thanks for all your input guys! Got Drive Image 2k2 for $20. I hate paying outrageous shipping costs
so I bought a couple old games too!...................[rtcw ($20) and deus ex ($10) if you must know!]

 

[BlueWeasel]

I haven't tried DI, but I use Ghost frequently. I make a backup image everytime I reinstall my OS or make major changes to my system.

I'd say go with Ghost.....

 

[mboy]

Powerquest is AWesome. i USED THEIR pOWER dEPLOY CENTER TO IMAGE AND ghost 30 rigs. NICE stuff.

 

[Mem]

Another vote for Powerquest Drive Image 2002.

 

[Doh!]

Another vote for Drive Image.

 

[Need4Speed]

Originally posted by: Pilsnerpete
I suddenly realized I was tired of reinstalling windows every month. I don't want to have to use regedit unless I have to anymore! I've had it with turning off services. It's tweaked, now I gotta save it. Which one do you like better? or is there a better one?


Pete

not sure why you have to reinstall windows every month, but my pref is ghost. small progyy and does exactly what i need it to.

 

[MTDEW]

I'm a ghost convert to PQ Drive Image Pro 2002 6.0.

Not that anything was wrong with Ghost, Just once I tried drive image pro , i never felt the need to try newer versions
of Ghost.

Pilsnerpete,
Yeah , keeping a clean install of WinXp imaged sure beats re-installing.

Put windows on drice c:
Games and apps on drive d:

I do a clean install of Winxp, all updates, all my crap & drvrs...everything but video drvrs. (cuz i keep buying the latest 3d cards..lol)
Make an image of it, then a clean install of Windows is just 2 1/2 min away.

Probably why i never had any issues with my 9700 Pro. (i used a clean WinXp image b4 installing my drvrs)

 

[nealh]

I would love to try Drive Image 2002 but when I went ot burn an image inDOS..it kept coastering on me...seems my 52x liteon does like Drive Image

Maybe Ishould try again

 

[MTDEW]

nealh,
Maybe a solution to your burning cdr in dos problem...

Why not try to just burn the image/images to your hdd in dos. (in 650mb files),
then burn them to cdr in windows afterwards.

EDIT: thats assuming your hdd is partitioned and you have a separate partition to save the images on of course.

 

[nealh]

I thought that might be a way to go...how do you burn the image in winxp if you create the iamge to your HDD

 

[vexingv]

drive image!!

 

[MTDEW]

I would just burn the images and name them something like.
CleanXp1.pqi
CleanXp2.pqi

Then when im in windows, just use nero or windows xp drag and drop to burn them to cd.

Then when ya wanna restore, just point drive image pro to your cdrom.

If youre asking how to create a restore disk in windows, i have no idea.
Never needed one.

I just keep 1 backup image on cd.(just in case)
And i have the drive image floppies made.(just in case)

And several on my hdd on partition e:

Of course i have 160gb of space though.

 

[V00DOO]

DriveImage!

 

[RalfHutter]

Drive Image 5.0 for me. 2002's a little bloated for my taste.

And I burn an occaisional image the way MTDEW says, in Windows. Just burn each *.pqi file to a CDr, use the set of Drive Image boot floppies you created during the install (you did do this, right?) to boot from, point DI to your CDrom drive and re-image away.

 

[rh71]

I use Ghost and have an image of my C: stored for restores on this personal PC. I guess I should give Drive Image a try after reading all of this... but Ghost has been flawless for me. 25 mins to image 3GB and 10 minutes to restore it.

 

[MTDEW]

I also like the new drive image cuz, i build pcs for friends.

And with the new Drive Image 2002 v6.0, you choose all options in windows and then it reboots itself
to dos to create/restore the image.

So if a friend REALLY SCREWS something up, i can use remote desktop to restore their pc for them
from my pc.

And the ability to add a description to each image is nice, im not sure if the newer versions of ghost have
this or not.

 

[MonkeyK]

True Image by Acronis allows you to image the system partition without leaving it.

-Mike

 

[nealh]

thanks MTDEW...I was wonder the file names..sounds very easy..
I have the DI startup disks and I use a w98 start up disk if I want DOS now...

 

[Toxic]

I like them both, but I think drive image is overall the better product. Then again,
I think most Powerquest products are better than symatecs.

 

[nealh]

One thing in setting up Drive Image it does not allow you to usea USB2 or Firewire drive to create images....I guess it is not a big deal but I wanted to use my fw hdd

 

[Pilsnerpete]

thanx you guys for all your opinions! I went with drive image, although I forgot there was a pro version.
Know what the difference is? True image was $25 too much, but it CAN use firewire or usb 1or2 hdd's.
It looked pretty convenient.

Thanks again,

Pete