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| message from zero on 1 Jun 2004 |
My system is working good (never thought I'd say that!)
I'd like to create an imgage of my hd in case of problems or disaster
to be able to recover the system just as it is (programs, so, preferences,
files, all)
I need to save the image to CDs
What tools can you recommend for that task?
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| InfoQuest replied to zero on 02 Jun 2004 |
It is a hard choice! Drive Image 7 appears to be having a number
challenges. CNET approval is only 25% and the latest PC Magazine review
only gave it 3 out of 5. Ghost 2003 has a CNET approval rating of 52%, but
has moved past Drive Image in the latest PC Magazine review with a rating of
4 out of 5. One concern in reading the reviews was the number of people
having trouble getting it to work with externals. Acronis True Image has a
CNET approval of 65% and was one of the only to receive CNET editors choice.
The latest issue of PC Magazine rated it 5 out of 5 and gave it PC magazines
editors choice. You can get a 15 day trial version, which is what I am
doing right now. I am still trying to confirm a couple of questions, but so
far the menus and interfaces have been very straight forward.
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| Cerridwen replied to roger on 2 Jun 2004 |
I'd recommend Drive Image 7 over Ghost or True Image any day. I've just
imaged my entire C partition (40GB) and the image is currently residing on
one uncompressed DVD. And it works, because I've tested it. Yep, that's 10:1
compression, folks!
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| =?Utf-8?B?cg==?= replied to zero on 1 Jun 2004 |
A hard drive Identical to the one you have and Norton Ghost.
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| *Vanguard* replied to =?Utf-8?B?cg==?= on 1 Jun 2004 |
If you use Ghost, and especially if you use EFS, make sure to include
the /IA parameter to do a physical read of the disk in creating the
image fileset rather than create a logical image. As I recall, Ghost
does not record but skip unused sectors so it's image will be a lot
larger than one created with DriveImage.
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| Kevin replied to zero on 1 Jun 2004 |
Symantec Ghost is a wonderful tool for this. Run sysprep just before you
restart to take an image, which will allow you to install the image even if
you change hardware.
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| =?Utf-8?B?cGF1bHhtdw==?= replied to zero on 1 Jun 2004 |
i use norton ghost it does a full backup of your system including all programs & files you can either back up
to another hard drive, another partion or cd/dvd rom
p.s. you only need the the norton ghost boot disk which you can put on flopy or as I have cd.
Just in caes the flopy gets corrupted
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