Acronis True Image 10 or Norton Ghost 10?

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I remember those times very clearly.

Don't get me wrong on external drives, I have a WDC eSATA
sitting on my desk. It stores everything from Virtual PC machines
to a long list of "Old" stuff.
 
http://castle.pricewatch.com/s/search.asp?s=ghost+2003
Interesting read:

Skip Norton Ghost 2003
Backup/disk-imaging program is for PC pros only.
Robert Luhn

http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,107378-page,1/article.html

I don't mind the PC Pros comment because I'm quite an experienced user.
It's the 2nd paragraph that interests me. Does ATI do all this, too?

your hard disk, from data to the state of the OS, so it's a natural tool
for system recovery, duplicating your desktop PC on your laptop, or
moving everything from an old PC to a new system. It can store drive
images on just about any kind of media--including another hard drive in
your computer, a network server, an external USB or FireWire hard drive,
or various CD-RW and DVD-RW/+RW discs. This version also adds Linux and
NTFS support; largely eliminates the need for a boot disk; and lets you
join two PCs via a USB, parallel, or network connection and then clone
one to the other.

Anna - when you discuss ATI - are you referring to the Workstation v 9.1
or the new Home Version 10?
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1. Thanks for the link to the vendor who's advertising they have the Ghost
2003 CD for sale. I hope so. In too many cases over the past few months we
found virtually every vendor who similarly advertised as such didn't have
the item in stock and gave us every indication they would not be carrying
Ghost 2003 any more. But we'll pass this on to any of our contacts who are
interested in purchasing a copy.

2. Insofar as to the negative comments in the review you cited with respect
to Ghost 2003, all I can say is to repeat what I previously stated - since
its release we've used that program more than a thousand times with
countless PCs. While not flawless, the program has proven relatively easy to
use, reasonably quick in carrying out its function, and effective in what it
does. Again, I emphasize that we've used the program for one purpose and one
purpose only -- to clone the contents of one HDD to another HDD. The program
performs that function in a no-nonsense & straightforward way. Our general
advice to users is that if their exclusive interest in using a disk imaging
program is for disk-to-disk cloning and they have a copy of the Ghost 2003
program, we see no compelling reason to change to another disk imaging
program such as the Acronis one.

BTW, coincidentally I posted step-by-step instructions for using the Ghost
2003 program last night (12/6/06). The thread was "Re: Norton Ghost 2003
cloned disk crashes when booted". You, and others interested in the program,
may want to take a look at it.

3. As to your question whether the ATI program has the same basic
capabilities as Ghost 2003 (I *think* that's what you're asking, yes?) the
answer is "Yes". Could you be more specific?

4. The Acronis program we've been working with is their "Home Edition".
Anna
 
1) I think it's recommended by many techs and
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Only the incompetent ones.

2) My registry becomes bloated after awhile, and I'm one of these people
who are constantly questioning strange dll's and exe files.
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Registry bloat cannot slow down your computer to any significant
extent. The worst case scenario is that the enlarged registry uses
more RAM thereby resulting in increased use of the paging file.
It's amazing what even the most benign sites can do with their cookies and
Javascript files. Do a regedit and go through your root and HKLM strings
and tell me how many strings there are that you would question.
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It would take literally days to do this, and to what avail?

Ron Martell Duncan B.C. Canada
--
Microsoft MVP (1997 - 2006)
On-Line Help Computer Service
http://onlinehelp.bc.ca
Syberfix Remote Computer Repair

"Anyone who thinks that they are too small to make a difference
has never been in bed with a mosquito."
 
1. Thanks for the link to the vendor who's advertising they have the Ghost
2003 CD for sale.
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Make sure the CD is version 2003.793 of Ghost because Syamantec has
stopped all support/updates of 2003. There are sites around where one
can download the updated files that make prior versions of Ghost
2003.793 to version 2003.793.

I can understand why a company wants to stop support of older versions
of their software but I think it would be nice if the kept the update
to the last known version alive via live update. Keeping the update
to the last known version alive via liveupdate requires no energy or
support manpower on their behalf.

Regards,
Ed
 
Ed said:
Make sure the CD is version 2003.793 of Ghost because Syamantec has
stopped all support/updates of 2003. There are sites around where one
can download the updated files that make prior versions of Ghost
2003.793 to version 2003.793.

I can understand why a company wants to stop support of older versions
of their software but I think it would be nice if the kept the update
to the last known version alive via live update. Keeping the update
to the last known version alive via liveupdate requires no energy or
support manpower on their behalf.

Regards,
Ed
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Thanks for the info Ed. It would seem Ed is correct in that it appears that
Symantec is no longer furnishing the latest (and presumably the final)
"build" - 793 - for the Ghost 2003 program. Up to at least a few months ago
this latest-final build was available for download & installation through
Symantec's LiveUpdate feature. We're in the process of contacting Symantec
about this to determine if this is some temporary glitch or a more permanent
policy of no longer providing this latest build.

I should point out, however, that if a user is *currently* in the market for
the Ghost 2003 program (as a standalone product - it's actually bundled with
the retail versions of the Ghost 9 & 10 versions and those do contain the
793 build) and he or she can locate one (they've virtually disappeared from
the online vendors) the likelihood is that the version *will be* the
2003.793 version since it's been more than two years now since that build
was released. So it would be an unusual situation I would think where a
vendor would still be carrying any of the earlier builds.

The reason it's important for a Ghost 2003 user to have the 2003.793 version
is because earlier versions did have some compatibility problems,
particularly with respect to disk-to-disk cloning operations involving a USB
external HDD.
Anna
 
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