Norton Ghost 9.0 vs Acronis 8.0

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Can anyone offer a comparison/review of either of these
apps? I'm looking to buy one, but so far can't seem to
find any user reviews of the new Ghost....thanks.
 
Here is a link to a review:

http://www.pcworld.com/reviews/article/0,aid,117621,00.asp

By the way, I have Trueimage 8 and it works very well on my PC with XP SP1-
and also SP-2.

Reading the review it appears that GHOST 9 can do about the same things as
Trueimage 8. However, I have been a bit down on GHOST since version 2003,
which refused to do my serial ATA disks from within XP (but would do from
the DOS bootdisk), and which only worked with some of my USB and firewire
ports.

Trueimage 8 has given me no problems, except on false warning mesage, if I
use the recovery CD. Apparently it checks for media in floppy and/or ZIP
drives. If it finds none, it issues a non-fatal warning. But, clicking
ignore gets over that and then it works fine.

By the way, when I first used version 7 of Trueimage I had a problem with
the serial ATA disks. I was impressed that Acronis support actually worked
with me to run diagnostics on my PC to see what was going wrong. A few
months later they issued a patch. In contrast, Symantec support pointed me
to a pre-written policy statement that GHOST 2003 did not do serial ATA (or
RAID), or if it happened to work, then it was not as a supported option,
meaning that I was on my own.
 

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