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Which is better? Ghost 2002 or Drive Image 2002?

stuman74

stuman74

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Hello,

I am trying to determine if one backup program (Norton Ghost 2002 or Powerquest Drive Image 2002) is better than the other for the backups I want to make. Primarily, I want to back up my primary partition that has WinXP Home on it. I don't trust the Veritas software that came with my HP DVD200i since it runs in windows and gives error messages unless you cancel every little program running in the background.

Ghost appears to need to boot from a floppy into DOS to run and Drive Image initiates in Windows, but then re-boots into DOS as well. I just want to get some opinions if one is preferred over the other and why.

Thanks!
 
I haven't used Drive Image, but for me, Ghost 2002 is absolutely useless! After reinstalling WinXP on my sister's laptop, I wanted to make a Ghost image of it in case she messed something up. Apparently there's no way to do it with Ghost 2002 (that I could figure out anyway!)

She doesn't have a CD-R drive in her laptop, but I have one on my desktop so I figured I'll just copy it through the network onto my desktop and burn it from there... but the problem is that the TCP/IP Master/Slave is no good for making images on NTFS drives (since DOS can't directly read NTFS...although I heard Drive Image gets around this limitation by doing it in Windows, but I'm not sure). Multicast server is not included with Ghost 2002 and network drive mapping is not supported... I finally had to end up using the corporate version of Ghost instead to get the job done. Maybe you'll get better results with Drive Image. Hope that helps!
 
I tried both,

No contest, Drive Image 2002 is easier and more powerful. No need for floppy disk (except emergencies). Run the program in windows, setup/config the image info, a script it created, computer reboots, goes directly into Drive Image, preforms image (no inputs, fully automated), and reboots at finish. So basicly, after you setup/config the image info in windows, the DI takes over.
 
Well, I took the plunge and bought the Drive Image 2002. I already ran a backup and it seems to have worked fine. I haven't tested a restore yet.

One question...it says it doesn't support writing to a DVD+RW (only CDR/RW). But if I dump the image file to another partition on my hard drive and then via other software copy that image to a DVD+RW disc, can I then restore from that disc? It would be nice if I didn't have to span my C drive to multple CDRW's and can capture it all onto one DVD+RW.
 
i don't think you can do it to a dvd-rw or other dvd media because it can only read from a FAT32 or CD format as of now. unless they release some patches then maybe. i have my drive imaged on a FAT32 partition on another HD. works great, restoring works too.
 
I didn't even think of the file format. It really makes a difference? My NTFS C drive it what I imaged to a file residing on my FAT32 D drive. If I make an image of D onto C, that might pose a problem?
 
I think it should be fine if you burn it to a DVD. As long as you have a DOS driver that works with your DVD drive it should be readable. At work we use DVD-R's for our Ghost images and they work great.
 
Originally posted by: stuman74
I didn't even think of the file format. It really makes a difference? My NTFS C drive it what I imaged to a file residing on my FAT32 D drive. If I make an image of D onto C, that might pose a problem?
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i don't think drive image can write to NTFS Drives. go ahead and try though. it's worth a shot.
 
I tested that last night. I was able to creat the image no problem onto the NTFS partition, but I did have a problem trying to restore it for some reason. Maybe that format was the issue. I since created a FAT32 partition that I am using to hold my images before writing to CD and that showed no issues. Next up will be to dump the image to the FAT32 drive, then archive to DVDRW. I have been setting my image sizes to 650 MB so they can be written to CDRW (which worked perfectly). I wonder if I can burn like 5-6 650 MB image files to a DVDRW and then restore from that single disc.
 
I have been using ghost 2001 for quite some time and have been very pleased with it. I have not used Ghost 2002 because when I try to get a registration code it always fails and I don't really like the whole concept of it. I usually just back-up from one partition to another with high compression so I don't go through so many CDs. I back-up about every other month and then to CDs about once a quarter.

Based on what I hear here I would like to try Drive Image. It sounds a lot easier and effective.
 
I don't think drive image can write to NTFS Drives. go ahead and try though. it's worth a shot.
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Only Drive Image 2002 is XP/NTFS compatible. Same with Partition Magic (you need version 7 for XP/NTFS).
 
Originally posted by: gonzo2k
I don't think drive image can write to NTFS Drives. go ahead and try though. it's worth a shot.
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Only Drive Image 2002 is XP/NTFS compatible. Same with Partition Magic (you need version 7 for XP/NTFS).
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Drive Image 5.0 is 100% compatible with WinXP/NTFS.

 
Originally posted by: gonzo2k
I don't think drive image can write to NTFS Drives. go ahead and try though. it's worth a shot.
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Only Drive Image 2002 is XP/NTFS compatible. Same with Partition Magic (you need version 7 for XP/NTFS).
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Ghost 2002 is XP Compatible also

They both do the same thing, I guess it comes down to which you're use to
 
I tried using Drive Image 5.0 last night, after having freshly installed the OS and necessary drivers but I have a problem: It reboots and begins writing to the 1st disc and (appears) to succesfully close it, but then when it ejects the disc I get an error message "Error writing to media," or something along those lines. When I click "ok" on the message, it reboots with out having finished the process. Any idea's why its it not finishing (the disc closure made it to a 100%, I just never get to start the next disc). My system spec's are in my rig profile...
 
Originally posted by: NeoMadHatter
Originally posted by: stuman74
I didn't even think of the file format. It really makes a difference? My NTFS C drive it what I imaged to a file residing on my FAT32 D drive. If I make an image of D onto C, that might pose a problem?
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i don't think drive image can write to NTFS Drives. go ahead and try though. it's worth a shot.
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You have it reversed, Ghost 2002 cannot write to NTFS. I am a happy user of DriveImage 2002 with Windows XP Pro on an NTFS partition.
 
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