What versions of Ghost work with WinXP?

[tennesota]

Symantec's web site says only Ghost 2002 works with WinXP. Has anyone here used any earlier versions?

 

[NeoMadHatter]

i think only 2002 works with it. i have only used 2002 so i can only verify that. good luck.

 

[Rob G.]

Ghost 2002 is the only version which can handle the Windows XP NTFS file system. If you're only using FAT32, I don't think it matters.

A warning though - Ghost 2002 prompts you for a twelve character license key code every time you perform a restore or clone. It's Symantec's way of telling you you're using it too much (no joke).

Drive Image 5.0 also handles XP NTFS but with the added benefit of being able to write a image on an NTFS partition. Ghost can only write an image file to FAT/FAT32 or CD-R. Oh - and Drive Image has no retarded license prompt either. 🙂

 

[tennesota]

I've looked at Drive Image in the past but never tried it, perhaps it's time to try it out.

 

[GeSuN]

perhaps it's time to try it out.

Give it a try tennesota, I used them both and I prefer Drive Image. Exactly because of the reasons Rob G.
said.

 

[NeoMadHatter]

hmm, maybe i should go back to drive image by the way that you guys talk about it.
i was wondering why norton told me to write down that license code.

 

[Bglad]

I heard somewhere that driveimage can be used from within windows. Is that true? Or do you have to boot to dos like you do with ghost?

Second, is there a dos option like in ghost? For example, could you use driveimage to restore an image to a freshly formatted machine?

I guess these are kind of stupid questions, it must do this. But I've never used it and am thinking of getting it because I've been having trouble with ghost lately.

 

[Rob G.]

Drive Image runs from DOS, just like Ghost. However it features something called 'Quick Image' which allows you to set up and schedule backups from Windows. The machine will reboot into DOS at the correct time (it handles the DOS boot itself, no need for floppies or bootable CDs), do the work and then boot back into Windows again.

 

[jv]

Thank you tennesota for starting this thread! I am currently using xp w/ntfs option.
I am about to move my 2x30g raid setup to a Barracuda 80g drive on a new machine.

I am imagining that I have to:

1- Format the 80g into 4 ntfs volumes with partition magic

2- use disk image to backup each volume

3- restore each image file to the appropriate volume to clone the entire drive

Is there any easier way to do this? God, I miss the WinMe days of ghost simply cloning the whole mess in
one shot!

thanks for your time,

jv🙁

 

[Auric]

Have you had trouble using Drive Image to image C: to another partition (all NTFS)?

It works fine to CD but to another partition it craps out on the verify and deletes it everytime.