How good IS Ghost

[Name]

A friend uses Ghost and had a complete backup of his system before the
inevitable happened.

He reinstalled the backup and while the operating system functions, a number
of applications fail to load when activated. In most cases all the app does
is track to its web site.

Should this be the case or is he missing something out with either the
backup or reload.

dj
(Trueimage user)

 

[badgolferman]

A friend uses Ghost and had a complete backup of his system before
the inevitable happened.

He reinstalled the backup and while the operating system functions, a
number of applications fail to load when activated. In most cases all
the app does is track to its web site.

Should this be the case or is he missing something out with either
the backup or reload.

dj
(Trueimage user)

I have used Ghost many times and it has never failed me.

 

[Jan Alter]

I've used Ghost and it seems to do an OK job .I've also used Trueimage (an
currently do) and found that everything was restored except that I had to
re-enter the Photoshop CS2 serial number to keep the program from timing out
at the end of the month. Once re-enetered it was fine.

 

[kony]

A friend uses Ghost and had a complete backup of his system before the
inevitable happened.

He reinstalled the backup and while the operating system functions, a number
of applications fail to load when activated. In most cases all the app does
is track to its web site.

Should this be the case or is he missing something out with either the
backup or reload.

Where the apps residing entirely on the same partition?

If so, some many have taken some kind of disc signature that
is meant to prevent typical piracy (or similarly, casual
reuse among different system or sharing with friends, etc).
In that case it might have noted this change and needs
re-registered or same installation key re-entered, and
possibly it doesnt' even offer a means of re-entering the
key. If it doesn't, perhaps there is a manual way to
trigger it or a registry entry that can be edited... or at
worst, reinstall those particular apps.

In general, Ghost uses the typical whole-partition method
which is suitable for purpose. I'd expect these apps to have
same problem with another alternative. Which apps are they?

 

[Bob]

some may have taken some kind of disc signature that
is meant to prevent typical piracy (or similarly, casual
reuse among different system or sharing with friends, etc).

That's why I clone the disk instead of back it up.

 

[kony]

That's why I clone the disk instead of back it up.

That's what Ghost (usually) does too, which seems to not
solve the problem.

 

[Bob]

That's what Ghost (usually) does too, which seems to not
solve the problem.

There are two modes: Image and Clone. I assumed the OP was talking
about Image mode, which does not copy the entire physical disk.

One think to try is get a copy of Win98 boot floppy and run FDISK
/MBR. There is a bug in that version which puts four zero bits in the
first four bits of the disk signature. That is enough to fool Windows
into believing the disk is not the same as the one you copied from.

 

[kony]

There are two modes: Image and Clone. I assumed the OP was talking
about Image mode, which does not copy the entire physical disk.

yes but image should create (that image) which when restored
IS a clone, yes?

One think to try is get a copy of Win98 boot floppy and run FDISK
/MBR. There is a bug in that version which puts four zero bits in the
first four bits of the disk signature. That is enough to fool Windows
into believing the disk is not the same as the one you copied from.

I was under the impression that a disk image does copy and
(later when restoring it, replace on the destination) write
the MBR the same. Does it not?

 

[XModem]

Nope

yes but image should create (that image) which when restored
IS a clone, yes?



I was under the impression that a disk image does copy and
(later when restoring it, replace on the destination) write
the MBR the same. Does it not?