Ghost program

[Street]

Are there any decent free programs for making an image of my hard drive? Or is Norton Ghost about the best for it?

Cheers

 

[nade]

I got myself a version of Acronis True Image 8 PE last year on the Personal Computer World magazine cover dvd. Keep an eye on the cover dvd's there always seems to be a version popping up every so often

PCPro, PCPlus, etc, chuck versions on their cover discs.

Apart from that i don't know of any free programs which will create an image. And to be honest, even tho i got that on a cover dvd, i still ended up getting ghost.

So, erm, i haven't really been much help, sorry. But i'd say if you are skint, keep an eye on the magazines

 

[M0KUJ1N]

use a linux live-CD and use "dd"?

Its free and is capable of making a perfect binary copy, though its not a method for the faint of heart

 

[~Divine~Wind~]

I've had norton foul up a coupla times,

Decided to try acronis true image.....Not going back to norton

Acronis seems the most reliable and easy to use from what I have played with

 

[Dirk]

I've always used Acronis T.I and it is quite faultless. Not to mention easy as pie to use. Personally i wouldn't trust a freeware imaging program even if there were one. IMO, stump up the cash or wait until you find a version on a cover-disc as mentioned above.

 

[buzzby]

i dont know about any free stuff but Norton Ghost is THE BEST out there. I have just had to do use the Ghost server and its amazing.

I'm sure you can buy a copy for less than £20 and it would be worth it

 

[tomos]

doesnt the latest ghost use acronis true image now? they were bought out i think.

at least the last ghost i tried was very different to the one i used a few years ago

 

[Sputnik II]

doesnt the latest ghost use acronis true image now? they were bought out i think.

at least the last ghost i tried was very different to the one i used a few years ago

If you mean Ghost 9, It is a rebadge of powerquests Drive image/V2i. Powerquest were bought out by Symantec.

 

[Trigger]

We use Symantec Ghost Corporate edition 8.0 at school and it really was brilliant. I went in on friday to re-image a classroom of PC's and it did them all in one go via Ghost Cast Does anyone have any idea how much it would cost me to use this on my home domain? I can't make much sense of the symantec website...

Thanks

Ben

 

[ted34]

I had problems when trying to replace the image of my o/s with ghost 9. Sorted it by downloading a dodgy copy of systemworks 06 premium in order to get the recovery cd from it and then using nf4 drivers that came with board rather than the symantec ones which were apparently the same (even though they kept causing it to crash) i managed to boot into recovery environment and replace image.

Norton tech support were useless - kept saying that norton doesnt support 64bit. Tried explaining that it was o/s that counted and i was using 32bit xp and so fact that i had a64 makes no difference - hung up in the end - useless.