Does anyone have any experience with Norton Ghost?

I don't install Acronis on any PC. I just use it direct from a USB key [restore media] to make backups and restores.
 
We use Ghost in work and ts pretty da*n straight forward.
We do already have a GhostCast server setup that is used for various sites and the imaging of multiple drives/pc's.
That said - it's not used on the Corporate side, only on the Education side. Beat's me why.
It is simple to use - however to get it's full potential you need your own GhostCast server setup (DHCP) in order to image to multiple drives.

Haven't used Acronis myself but read good things - There's a copy with my new ssd.
 
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Hey rhysdcuk, is there possibly a web tutorial you could post that explains how to use it?

I'm guessing the version of Ghost you have is a much older version but could you also give us the revision number.
 
Acronis True Image WD edition turned out to not be what I needed.

It can overwrite one HDD partition with the contents of another HDD partition but since HDD1 is 20GB and the free partition on HDD2 was 900GB, I didn't really want to do that.

Bought Acronis Disk Director 10 off the tree people. It can also copy partitions about but can do a lot more too. Like resizing the 900GB partition to 880GB, creating a new 20GB partition and moving the 20GB of data from HDD1 in there.

Restarted the computer afterwards and the new partition appeared as a logical drive with all the data copied over.

Doesn't have the backup functions that True Image has (the cut-down WD version doesn't have those anyway) but the partition fiddling and copying is what I needed :)
 
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