NORTON GHOST 9 REVIEW WINDOWS
It's free, it's fast, and it comes pre-loaded on the Ultimate Boot CD for Windows (which apparently has no problem with Passport drives, BTW).
Just yesterday, I imaged another machine with the exact same specs (only using 8.7GB though) at the same client site using DriveImage XML and it took around 15 minutes.Īlthough I'm keeping that old CD-ROM with Ghost 2003 on it, I'm thinking about switching to DriveImage XML. This was on a modern-ish system with a 2.4Ghz Pentium D, 1GB of RAM and a SATA drive (with around 10GB used). The last time I tried using it on a client's machine, the progress meter said "4 hours remaining" (and, at the speed it was going, I believed it). I rebooted off an old CD-ROM I made that had the Ghost 2003 executable on it and ran Ghost with the -FRO (ignore bad clusters) switch and everything was fine.Ĥ) ATI is as slow as fucking Christmas - I've tried using ATI in the field, but it's simply too damn slow. In both cases, ATI hit the bad clusters and choked. Again, this might be fixed in newer versions.ģ) ATI has no provision for dying disks - On two occasions, I've wanted to back up disks with bad clusters that I've known were dying. If I choose "without", it boots, but I can't attach the USB drive, which was where I dump my images in the first place. If I choose "with", the ATI disc completely locks up. You're asked if you want to boot with or without support for USB drives. I've hooked it up to hundreds of computers running XP, Vista or Server 2003 since I've owned it, and it's never given me a minute's trouble. It's a simple notebook drive in a USB 2.0 enclosure. Acronis might have fixed this anyway (I still have ATI 10 on this machine).Ģ) The ATI boot disc doesn't work with my USB hard drive - I have an 80GB WD Passport hard drive. I'd expect boot discs to have issues between versions (say versions 9 and 10), but not for point releases.
NORTON GHOST 9 REVIEW INSTALL
If you install a version of ATI (say, 9.0.357) and choose to make a boot disc, then later upgrade to a later version of ATI (say, 9.0.511), don't be surprised if the older boot disc thinks an image you created with the newer version is "corrupt". Use mostly use ATI, but I not really happy with it for the following reasons:ġ) The ATI boot discs are a nightmare. TrueImage" threads come up so often that I should just save the following into a text file so I can paste it into the next one! If it is backed up within windows does that mean you wouldn't get a bootable image-or that you have to jump through some hoops to make it bootable?ĭoes Ghost 12/14 make an image that would be bootable from within windows? I read that it didn't require that anymore-but is that true? Or are you saying in order to make such an image I have to reboot into the MS-prewindows environment? (I assume that ATI does all this automatically). If I make a disk image using ATI and then restore that image to a new HD-it won't boot? If you jsut want to back up files that may be locked, this can all happen from within a windows session. Some poeple don't like this so you can burn a Linux-based CD that can be used to boot and make a truely off-line copy as well, or you can use a Bart's PE disc if you like that.
If you want to image the entire drive, so as to make a bootable backup, it will image from the MS provided pre windows environment (where chkdsk runs). When I tried stuff in the past (years ago) those that didn't reboot, made an image that once restored wasn't bootable.Īnd the stupid Ghost corporate still reboots (as far as I could tell-I had handed it off to someone else when Ghost Solution Suite 2.0 came out). Just to make sure-it makes images without having to reboot into some DOS environment, right? Well hell-that settles it-I hated drive image and didn't think it worked that well. But i keep around an ancient copy of Drive Image (pre-symantec) because i can make images for VMware.
NORTON GHOST 9 REVIEW OFFLINE
So now you have to activate "Drive Image".Īcronis has Online and they have have an offline Linux environment Offline image option. Is stripping the option of offline images using "Drive Image" but they allow you to use "Ghost" 2003 being the last version of ghost they made to do it. The 2 large contributions Symantec added to Drive image. Current Ghost = PowerQuest's Drive Image that symantec bought.
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