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Member (7 bit)
Join Date: Jan 2000
Location: England
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I have several computers running a a multi-boot setup, which includes '98, WinNT Server 4.0 and Win 2k Pro.
As it is a pain to re-install all from scratch and as all the systems contain the same hardware right down to the mouse i want to use a drive imaging tool to create an entire drive image of one of the systems that can be used to restore the others in case of failure. I also would like to put this image onto several CDR's for ease of restoring. Which imaging program would work best for this ? The two i know the most abut are Norton Ghost and Drive Image. Someone told me they had problems with Ghost and Win2K. Thanks in advance. |
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Member (14 bit)
Join Date: Mar 1999
Location: Kelowna, B.C., Canada
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Old versions of Ghost had a few probs with 2k, newer do not, and Ghost is easier (IMHO) to use than Drive Image.
It will also automatially span any number of CDR's needed. |
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Member (7 bit)
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Location: England
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Can you tell me the latest vesrion of ghost that you would advise i use ?
I have ghost 2001. Thanks. |
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Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: Reno, NV
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I have both Ghost 2002 and Drive Image 2002; I prefer Drive Image. Just my opinion, I think it is easier to use and it reboots for you into dos to do the image. No need to make a boot disk. When the program [Drive Image] is finished it restarts your computer for you. You can image each partition or all of them. Make sure that you include the partition that has your boot files on it [usually C]. If you are using ntfs, ghost can read ntfs just not write to an ntfs volume. I think the latest version 2003 will write to ntfs. Drive Image reads and writes to ntfs without a problem; it even sees one drive that is hooked up to a promise controller without any extra drivers.
Last edited by crjdriver; 03-14-2003 at 12:35 PM. |
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Member (14 bit)
Join Date: Mar 1999
Location: Kelowna, B.C., Canada
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Ghost does what DI does, just a little differently.
Use whatever you feel most comfortable with. Ghost 2002 will recognize ATA card mounted drives, network drives, etc...I've made, and restored images and clones over the network, to and from Controller drives, SCSI drives... |
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