Norton Ghost + SSD

qbazdz · 21 Jun 2011 at 23:21

Hi,

can anyone shed some light onto the backing up and restoring process of a system installed on a SSD using Norton Ghost?
Are there any cons of doing this?

Thanks

Philtor · 22 Jun 2011 at 08:05

If it's Windows 7 why not use the built in image creation tool to take an image of the SSD instead?

qbazdz · 22 Jun 2011 at 09:20

Ekhm... don't trust Microsoft with my stuff

Philtor · 22 Jun 2011 at 09:30

I would sooner use the built in imaging tool on Windows 7 or Macrium reflect than use Norton Ghost

qbazdz · 22 Jun 2011 at 09:50

how about the Acronis software then?
BTW. on my standard HDDs I never had a problem with Ghost... it actually helped me to find problems and bad sectors on one HDD before warranty expired

Philtor · 22 Jun 2011 at 10:42

Yeah Acronis is excellent but have a look at the free version of Macrium reflect. It's the dogs danglies and it's free

qbazdz · 22 Jun 2011 at 10:50

Looks good but the free edition doesn't have some of the features I need :/ shame

Philtor · 22 Jun 2011 at 10:52

Doh! Well Acronis is worth a look then. Great piece of software!

matthab · 22 Jun 2011 at 13:09

Norton Ghost the dos version is VERY old and doesnt support Win 7 officially. I would hate to trust it still.

I recommend Acronis for drive imaging. True Image 2011 can do a striaght clone and you get brilliant back up software.

AbsenceJam · 22 Jun 2011 at 13:32

qbazdz said:
Ekhm... don't trust Microsoft with my stuff

Might want to try another OS then.....

Dervious · 22 Jun 2011 at 13:56

Paragon Backup & Recovery 2011 (Advanced) Free ?

I recently gave my system a complete "refresh". I used Paragon to make a backup image of my SSD. I then restored that image onto an old HDD, so I had a backup of my system/files while I re-installed Win7 on my SSD.

qbazdz · 22 Jun 2011 at 14:09

Recent Ghost version for sure supports Win7, mathab. It even starts like Win7 installation disk...

Jakus · 27 Jun 2011 at 07:15

Norton Ghost is one of the greatest programs ever made, I have many versions and if You know how to tweak it for odd raid controllers will work on virtually anything windows.....but I'm just referring to the Dos version, the only thing I have found is images made with newer versions obviously need the same or newer versions of ghost.
It's perfect for SSD's as it does not mess with the disk alignment (when restoring a partition image)

lesz42 · 27 Jun 2011 at 08:46

the Windows 7 built in image creation tool , works well, free and simple, if its just a system image you need

Jakus · 27 Jun 2011 at 13:58

lesz42 said:
the Windows 7 built in image creation tool , works well, free and simple, if its just a system image you need

In the past when I've used that it makes a massive image, takes forever and I bet it will not install to a different drive without having to Jump through hoops etc. A simple recovery disk takes longer than the time Ghost could Image and restore !