Ghosting Windows 7

[rp2000]

Hi,

Just wanted to check, I have an old version of Ghost (2003 the one that works in DOS). It has served me well for years and I have it on a bootable USB stick. Is there any reason why I cannot ghost my Win7 install to the USB stick (I have done this previously when XP was on this machine and restored that image back fine).

Obviously I can try to take an image, but I would like to know if it will work 1st, and if the image would be restorable, if I wipe/break the install, or if I would just be wasting my time. I seem to recall reading somewhere the newer versions of Ghost don't run from bootable CDs/USB etc.


rp200

 

[rp2000]

I've not tried the 2003 version with Windows 7 but I know the latest version (15.0) works fine and has restored the capability to create images from the bootable cd which was missing in v14.

Cheers, I may look into version 15, still hoping someone here can confirm if they have used older DOS based Ghost tools with Windows7, rather not buy a new version if I don;t have to, especially as I don't need all the GUI features it probably comes with, and just want the ghost.exe and dos versions


rp2000

 

[rp2000]

I still run Ghost in DOS, version 11.5 apparently. Works fine imaging Windows 7 partitions, no reason why it wouldn't.

i think ghost 11.5 is a very new version (The 2nd newest according to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_(software)#Version_history).

Mine is version 8.x

According to this article the newer ones use ghost32.exe and a PE environment, whereas mine just uses legacy 16 bit DOS, which is why I thought it may not work.


rp2000

 

[rp2000]

I have found a post on the norton forum that people have successfully imaged and restored and win 7 partition but not sure if I can post a link here or not?

E-mail it to me, through trust, if you are unsure about posting it here.

cheers in advance


rp2000