TrueImage is incredible, and so very affordable too! Ghost was an amazing
product back in the day, but hardware has changed and Norton didn't keep up.
I seriously considered purchasing Norton to make multiple workstations for
my father's business. I had a Ghost 2003 edition that didn't cut it because
of incompatibilities with the hardware. I assumed that the latest version
would resolve the issue, mainly SATA.
Luckily I ended up trusting the Newegg customer reviews. My perception of
the Ghost software was that it was leading, robust software which was in a
league of its own. However, the ratings were awful, and I looked into the
competition. TrueImage was cheap and downloadable right from Newegg, so I
saved both time and money. That stuff is amazing. You can prepare many
media types as boot media. From this, you can clone drives, get and send
image files to and from CD-R media, USB, network shares, DVD. I was just
impressed, because they made that media resemble the XP luna theme and it's
always easy to use.
In my case, I installed the software on my server, set the network boot
options, and with every system, I used boot from network option and it was
same as if I had put in the boot CD. I made an image from one computer,
which saved directly to a network share, and I then pulled that image from
several identical workstations (also with the boot from network ability) to
save time. This software is up to date, extra robust software, that easy to
use.
Only thing that I would comment about, is that if you choose to use the
network to do these things, you may need to type /SERVER/C or whatever your
shared folder may be. Most of the time the entire network was viewable, but
sometimes I gave it direction
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Good luck with it Charlie.. Oh .. and if it is not apparent, I am not being
payed to say such things, it's incredible software and I want to let it be
known.
Simon
