Ghost Image question

[Popeye]

For the last 5 years I've been running a w2k matching formatted in
FAT32, I make backups every week using Ghost 7 that boots from a
Windows 95 floppy. This has worked flawlessly for backups and
restores. Tomorrow I'm getting a new machine which will be running XP
Home and be formatted in NTFS. Will the above procedure continue to
work properly on the new machine? I'd hate to find out that there's a
problem when I try to restore an image. Any thoughts would be greatly
appreciated.
Popeye

 

[Myweb]

Hello Popeye,

Just try it, should work. You can't "destroy" the disk with testing to create
the image. What maybe happens is that ghost 7 is not compatible with the
size of your harddisk. Is it IDE or SATA?

Best regards

Myweb
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[Sid Knee]

For the last 5 years I've been running a w2k matching formatted in
FAT32, I make backups every week using Ghost 7 that boots from a
Windows 95 floppy. This has worked flawlessly for backups and
restores. Tomorrow I'm getting a new machine which will be running XP
Home and be formatted in NTFS. Will the above procedure continue to
work properly on the new machine? I'd hate to find out that there's a
problem when I try to restore an image. Any thoughts would be greatly
appreciated.

I do the same thing on a regular basis with Win2K formatted in NTFS and
using Ghost 8 from a win98 formatted boot-cd with no problems. I back up
to a USB drive. Prior to the boot-cd, I used a win98 formatted floppy.

I used to use Ghost 7 at one time and as far as I recall, I noticed no
difference at all in the dos-boot version when I changed to Ghost 8.

I'd probably upgrade to a Win98 formatted boot floppy rather than win95
just to keep up with the times a bit but you should have no problem in
any case. You might want to consider setting up a win 98 based boot-cd
which boots much faster and you can put all sorts of other utilities on it.

I've needed to restore a number of times and this setup has never let me
down. (I always verify the image after backup).

Incidentally, one "quirk" I've found with Ghost (7 and 8) is that it
won't let you restore a *partition image* to a completely blank HD (it
will let you restore a *disk image* to a blank hd). To restore a
partition image to a blank drive you need to create an empty partition
first and then restore to it.

 

[Popeye]

Thanks guys
I did convert my old machine to NTFS just to try it out.. Ghost 7 did
not work properly. Got Ghost 8 and it worked fine. Put the old FAT32
image back on. However, thinking about buying Acronis True Image Home
V10. Any comments?

 

[David H. Lipman]

From: "Popeye" <[email protected]>

| Thanks guys
| I did convert my old machine to NTFS just to try it out.. Ghost 7 did
| not work properly. Got Ghost 8 and it worked fine. Put the old FAT32
| image back on. However, thinking about buying Acronis True Image Home
| V10. Any comments?

If you mean Synmantec Ghost v7.x, it should have worked. I have used many versions of Ghost
(retail and Enterprise) usinh Win2K and WinXP with NTFS with no proplems. However, I would
NEVER have used DOS from Win95. I always used DOS from Win9SE for a Ghost boot Disk.

 

[DL]

I've used Acronis v9 for some on both win2k and winxp home, all ntfs,
without any problems

 

[Sid Knee]

Thanks guys
I did convert my old machine to NTFS just to try it out.. Ghost 7 did
not work properly. Got Ghost 8 and it worked fine. Put the old FAT32
image back on. However, thinking about buying Acronis True Image Home
V10. Any comments?

I've used both Ghost 7 and 8 successfully with NTFS partitions. The boot
disk was win98SE based - don't know why that should make a difference
though.

I've personally had bad experiences with Acronis (earlier version than
10) not passing a verification of the backup image, although I know
others here use it OK. In your position I would at least try a Win98SE
based boot disk first. If that works for you with NTFS you still have
the option of changing to Acronis but you can, if you wish, run both
backup systems until you gain confidence in Acronis.

If you are going to change horses at least do the prudent things and:

- backup and verify using your current (Ghost) backup system.
- backup and verify using Acronis.
- restore the Acronis Image.

In other words, test the Acronis system thoroughly to make sure it works
for you while you still have a reliable backup of your drive based on
your old backup system.