Ghosting

[Mike Oxbig]

Has anybody got Ghost 8 to work with Vista, I boot into the ghost program
with no problems. I can see both of my drives but when I go to create an
image to disc, my other drive doesn't not show, only the A drive shows, any
suggestions? Thanks

 

[Richard Urban]

1. Ghost 8 is not Vista compatible

2. Ghost 9 is not Vista compatible

3. You can only "recover" from a Ghost 'RECOVERY Environment CD - hence
it's name.

4. You create an image from with Vista, after you have installed a
"compatible" version of Ghost

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You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!

 

[Chad Harris]

I doubt you'll get Ghost 8 working on Vista or Ghost 9. I'd move to the
newest and I do always try to use older software when it will work. The
newest is

http://www.symantec.com/themes/ghost/index.jsp

CH

 

[Mike Oxbig]

Thanks for the help, so it lookes like if I only want to make an image of my
drive to restore I need this version Symantec Ghost Solution Suite 2.0 ?

 

[Richard Urban]

Acronis TrueImage HOME Edition (version 10) works fine and is a bit less
expensive.

And, you can also create an image while booted into their CD - which you
create after you install the program in Vista.

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Richard Urban
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Quote from George Ankner:
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!

 

[Stefano]

Not sure about the pricing but as an user I can confirm that Acronis is way
better than Symantec. I use both the workstation and the server edition and
there is no comparison.
Have a nice day.
Stefano C.

 

[Scott]

Not sure about the pricing but as an user I can confirm that Acronis is way
better than Symantec. I use both the workstation and the server edition and
there is no comparison.
Have a nice day.
Stefano C.

Acronis rocks AND it's not Symantec. (yet.....)
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[Stefano]

Symantec is really a "kiss of death"; Norton products, when they were "Peter
Norton" rocked. I still have somewhere "Norton Commander" for DOS and all
the other great software suites made for Win95 etc. Now I would not touch
any Symantec/Norton products for any reason; once you install the Symantec
AV suite you have only one option: format and re-install.
I used Delrina FaxWorks and TalkWorks for years, after Symantec bought it I
had only problems and BSOD.
I really hope that Acronis will not follow the same pattern.
Have a nice day
Stefano C.

 

[John Barnett MVP]

I haven't had any success getting Ghost 10 to work on Vista. Yes it
installs, but after that you are banging your head against a brick wall.

Personally i use Acronis true Image 10

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[Michal Kawecki]

Forget Ghost, use Drive Snapshot http://www.drivesnapshot.de/en/home.htm
.. It's far more better.

 

[Mike Oxbig]

I downloaded the trial of Acronis either I'm missing something or just use
to ghost but it says my backup drive has to be totally empty to put the
image there, I have a 111gb second drive partitioned into 4 sections with
one section totally empty for the image but only the whole drive shows
during the image wizard, not all 4 partitions, what am I missing or not
understanding? Thanks again

 

[Michel]

1. Ghost 8 is not Vista compatible

2. Ghost 9 is not Vista compatible

3. You can only "recover" from a Ghost 'RECOVERY Environment CD - hence
it's name.

4. You create an image from with Vista, after you have installed a
"compatible" version of Ghost

Ghost 11 is working here

 

[Richard Urban]

Sounds like you are trying to use drive copy. That mandates that the 2nd
drive be clean, and of equal or greater size (capacity).

You want backup. You can then backup only your system partition (your
choice) to another drive. The image is stored as a file on the backup drive.

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(For email, remove the obvious from my address)

Quote from George Ankner:
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!

 

[Richard Urban]

Fine. Can you also "create" an image when booting from their "Recovery"
environment CD?

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Quote from George Ankner:
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!

 

[John Barnett MVP]

Michal, does Drive Snapshot support Vista? There is nothing on the website
that indicates that it is currently Vista compatible. At least Acronis true
Image 10 'is' vista compatible

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[Michel]

I'm using a bootable USB-stick, the only thing you need is Ghost.exe (DOS)

 

[Michal Kawecki]

I everyday run batch with this small app on my personal machine, so I
can confirm that it work wihout any problem under Vista Ultimate. I had
always installed it on my product machines under XP, W2k, NT4, and it
always worked reliable. This is a great product.

It don't require installation on hdd, a single .exe file is enough to
properly doing it's job. You can run this file even from Vista recovery
DVD and from there you can recover your partitions, create new images,
or assign a letter to your previously created image and - in comfortable
manner - copy out single files from it. It know differential backups,
can copy files being use, compress and encrypt images with AES key, and
using switches we can select any folder or single file to skip before
creating image. It can recover images into smaller partitions than
original, correct different disk geometry, repair missing MBR start
code, set/unset active partition, clear/set HDD nt-signature. It has
almost all positive features which should have a good imaging program.
This one should be a Complete PC Backup, not that unfinished app what's
in our systems... :-(

P.S. The nevest beta version (
http://www.drivesnapshot.de/download/sn138rc2.exe ) can use Volume
Shadow Copy Service and safely image running MS Exchange server. It can
even save multiple partitions at once.

 

[Chad Harris]

Mike there are two Symantec products depending on your needs on that link.
Personally, I'm using Acronis because it has had years of such positive
backing and it has a lot of fans on this thread. I've used GHOST before,
but I started using Acronis 2 years ago. I haven't used both products.

Acronis has a trial. I don't remember Symantec ever offering trials.

http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing/download/trueimage/

CH

 

[Scott]

Symantec is really a "kiss of death"; Norton products, when they were "Peter
Norton" rocked. I still have somewhere "Norton Commander" for DOS and all
the other great software suites made for Win95 etc. Now I would not touch
any Symantec/Norton products for any reason; once you install the Symantec
AV suite you have only one option: format and re-install.
I used Delrina FaxWorks and TalkWorks for years, after Symantec bought it I
had only problems and BSOD.
I really hope that Acronis will not follow the same pattern.
Have a nice day

Symantec has ruined many products by buying out their makers. As I
rhetorically asked in another post..:

WTF HAVE they produced that's "original"? What are they
selling now that they developed from day one?

They ruined (or ignored) some apps I really liked once upon a time.
And now all they produce is bloatware that crashes. And their "live
update" feature often doesn't work, crashes, or messes up an
update/install halfway through it.

I'm astounded by the fact that despite all this, they continue to be
popular.
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A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
NOTICE: In-Newsgroup (and therefore off-topic) comments on my sig will
be cheerfully ignored, so don't waste our time.

 

[Scott]

Mike there are two Symantec products depending on your needs on that link.
Personally, I'm using Acronis because it has had years of such positive
backing and it has a lot of fans on this thread. I've used GHOST before,
but I started using Acronis 2 years ago. I haven't used both products.

Acronis has a trial. I don't remember Symantec ever offering trials.

http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing/download/trueimage/

Symantec offers trials on a lot of Norton Products. I'm not sure if
Ghost is one of them or not.
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A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
NOTICE: In-Newsgroup (and therefore off-topic) comments on my sig will
be cheerfully ignored, so don't waste our time.