So I want to save my XP status..

[plagiarist]

System Restore is unreliable. I want to 'save' the state my XP is in now that I've put on all the drivers, mozilla, firefox, quicktime and realplayer alternatives, divx driver, etc on it. I'd get goback but I don't need to be making restore points daily.. I just want something for now. I also have a lot of junk on the drive my windows is installed to so it can't back up the whole thing. Well, it could, but that wouldn't make sense.

 

[NoToRiOuS1]

Norton Ghost 8.0
you can either make a copy of your entire drive onto another drive...or you can actually burn it onto a cd or a dvd...pretty good stuff...

 

[plagiarist]

So I could select all of the windows and some of the program files folders and be able to fully restore it all whenever I want?

 

[phatrabt]

Doesn't work like that. Here's what happens with Ghost (I have it and can't imagine life without it):

1. You install Ghost from the CD\net or whereever.
2. Run the Ghost program and it will send you through all these menu's and wizards to set up how you want the image.
3. Once you're finished there, it will tell you that it's going to reboot and create the image. Go ahead and let it.
4. Machine will boot into DOS and create an "image" of your drive EXACTLY as it is AT THAT MOMENT.
5. Once finished, it will boot back into Windows.

So to asnwe your question, it will take a snapshot of the drive\partition at that time. There are no incremental backups in Ghost 8.

However, there is a feature like that in Ghost 9. I haven't played with it yet but it's supposed to let you do incremental backups and can also image from within Windows (so you don't have to reboot). Hope this helps

BTW, I use my old Ghost boot disk to boot and image. You can do it that way if you don't want to install Ghost ino Windows.

phatrabt

 

[jamesbond007]

I like Acronis True Image!!! It's *MUCH* faster than Norton Ghost, does incremental backups, and never (at least I haven't had it prompt me) makes me reboot, whether it's an incremental, full image, whatever!

I'd guess that Acronis is 2-3 times faster than Norton. It took 4 minutes for a 2002 Dell to save a WinXP image (C drive) that had all of my friend's programs like Office, Photoshop, CAD stuff for school (it was all about 5GB worth) , and imaged it to a partition on the same HDD in just a tish over 4 minutes with Normal compression.

You can also go back and view/extract files from an image within an explorer-type window, just like NAV.

 

[boomerang]

Originally posted by: jamesbond007
I like Acronis True Image!!! It's *MUCH* faster than Norton Ghost, does incremental backups, and never (at least I haven't had it prompt me) makes me reboot, whether it's an incremental, full image, whatever!

I'd guess that Acronis is 2-3 times faster than Norton. It took 4 minutes for a 2002 Dell to save a WinXP image (C drive) that had all of my friend's programs like Office, Photoshop, CAD stuff for school (it was all about 5GB worth) , and imaged it to a partition on the same HDD in just a tish over 4 minutes with Normal compression.

You can also go back and view/extract files from an image within an explorer-type window, just like NAV.

And it's cheaper too! Downloadable version at Newegg.

 

[BW86]

get Acronis True Image instead of Norton Ghost.

Poll: Ghost 9 or Acronis True Image 8?