Need Drive Image Software for Dual Boot Win98/2kPro System... Any Ideas?

[HumbleFish]

Hi All,

I need Drive Image Software that works well with a Dual Boot Win98/2kPro System... Any Ideas?

Thanks for Your Help, and Love You!
HumbleFish

 

[DaveSimmons]

Drive Image and Ghost both come with DOS versions, and the latest both support NTFS, so either should work fine -- both can back up "hidden" partitions. Ghost 2003 seems to get more positive responses from real users than DI7 so I'll probably be switching to Ghost instead of upgrading my old DI (version 5 I think).

 

[HumbleFish]

Thanks DaveSimmons,

But I read a review that said that Drive Image 7 had a problem with Dual Boot?... You can read the review here at: http://www.computervideo.net/sep03-4.html.

Also, I want to burn the image to cdrw if that makes a difference.

 

[DaveSimmons]

Yikes, I'd heard bad things about DI7, but that's a new one. DI version 5 works great (from DOS) on all of the multi-boot systems I've used it on including several servers. But it can only backup to FAT32 partitions not to NTFS so I'd say you should get Ghost 2003.

FYI, if you need to buy any hardware from newegg you can legally buy a copy of the OEM Norton Systemworks Pro (with ghost 2003) at the same time for cheap.

 

[HumbleFish]

Thanks Dave, I pretty bummed out too to see that DI7 didn't like duel boot... And I was looking at that System Works deal at newegg and it looks pretty good.

Question: when You use DI 5 in dos can you still burn to cdrw?

 

[HumbleFish]

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[DaveSimmons]

Originally posted by: HumbleFish
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Never tried it, I've always backed up to a data partition. I can't check until tonight.

 

[EagleKeeper]

I have a dual boot system 98/2K.

I have had no problem backing up the partition and restoring it.

The Ghost version that I use does not work under 2K; I just boot up a DOS disk and then copy away.

 

[HumbleFish]

DaveSimmons,

You don't need to go through that much trouble, but thanks.

EagleKeeper,

Do You back up the whole drive to cdrw?


Also, I found this program called True Image and it seems that it will do everything that I want- here's a email that I sent them and the reply just incase someone else is interested:

Hello --

Thank you for your interest in our software!

Yes, Acronis True Image works with such drives.

Please visit Acronis online store at http://www.acronis.com/sales/online/
to purchase your product.

Thank you.

--
Best regards,
Anton Gromov

Acronis, Inc.
395 Oyster Point Blvd. Suite 213
South San Francisco
CA 94080 USA
http://www.acronis.com/

Acronis... Compute with confidence

HumbleFish@xxxxxx.com wrote:

> Hi Acronis,
>
> My System has a single drive that has 2 operating systems on it: Win98
> and Win2kPro... Can True Image make a drive image of this duel boot
> system (the whole drive) and burn it to cdrw?
>
> The reason that I ask is because Drive Image has trouble with duel boot
> systems.
>
> Thanks for your help, and Love You,
> HumbleFish
> Romans 5:1 KJV
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