Freeware is not for everyone (Disccusion)

[Chief Suspect]

Ghost won't restore windows XP. That is you can restore it to
your hd
without errors, but you won't be able to log in . The only
way I can
do it is by using windows own backup utility.

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Nonsense! Unless your Ghost 7.5 works radically different from
my Ghost 2003 .. my DOS GHOST.EXE both captures and restores my XP-SP2
images flawlessly everytime. I even do it just for fun drill to
illustrate to visitors how stupidly simply it is.

There are others ALMOST as simple: TeraByte offers a DOS trial version
that is FULLY operational and doesn't expire (AFAIK). Registration is
less than $20, but this is not the purview of A.C.F.

 

[Joe]

Nonsense! Unless your Ghost 7.5 works radically different from
my Ghost 2003 .. my DOS GHOST.EXE both captures and restores my XP-SP2
images flawlessly everytime. I even do it just for fun drill to
illustrate to visitors how stupidly simply it is.

There are others ALMOST as simple: TeraByte offers a DOS trial
version that is FULLY operational and doesn't expire (AFAIK).
Registration is less than $20, but this is not the purview of A.C.F.

I'm glad for you. The truth is my ghost file is about 4 gb and is in 2
parts on one dvd rom. I had no errors when I made the image and no
errors were shown when I restored it on my p4 1gb ram. It is also NTFS
partition. I can only get as far as to the welcome screen. It may have
something to do with the preinstall environment Mel posted about. I
still have the dvd, but so far it is useless (so much for my hard work
installing all the stuff ).

BTW I can extract all the files using
ghost explorer but they will still be useless as the os won't load.

joe

 

[Chief Suspect]

I'm glad for you. The truth is my ghost file is about 4 gb and is in 2
parts on one dvd rom. I had no errors when I made the image and no
errors were shown when I restored it on my p4 1gb ram. It is also NTFS
partition. I can only get as far as to the welcome screen. It may have
something to do with the preinstall environment Mel posted about. I
still have the dvd, but so far it is useless (so much for my hard work
installing all the stuff ).

BTW I can extract all the files using
ghost explorer but they will still be useless as the os won't load.

joe

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Try this, Joe:

Uninstall every vestige of GHOST 75 from your computer. Keep ONLY the
single executable DOS file called GHOST.EXE Using a boot floppy to gain
boot up into real DOS, execute that single GHOST.EXE and see if it will
not read and repaint your 2-part image to the C: harddrive. Be certain
that the 2 parts are located together where you can go find them with
the GHOST.EXE program.

 

[Clif Notes]

Hi Mel, and all ...

Have you checked out XXClone?
http://www.xxclone.com/

It's in beta, but I've heard good things about it.
Naturally it only clones a hard drive but that is a good backup
solution for many people.

Clif Notes - http://www.xanga.com/clif_notes
Dedicated to promoting freeware and free information

 

[Helen]

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Try this, Joe:

Uninstall every vestige of GHOST 75 from your computer. Keep ONLY the
single executable DOS file called GHOST.EXE Using a boot floppy to gain
boot up into real DOS, execute that single GHOST.EXE and see if it will
not read and repaint your 2-part image to the C: harddrive. Be certain
that the 2 parts are located together where you can go find them with
the GHOST.EXE program.

What do you mean "located together"?

 

[Mel]

What do you mean "located together"?

In the same Directory.