Norton Ghost images

willhub · 6 Sep 2007 at 18:57

Hi.

I've got a ghost image of Windows Vista, with all my apps and everything set up how I like it, now I'm wanting to move back to xp, but in the even I ever feel I want to come back to Vista, I want to store this ghost image, so will just having it on the HDD make it corrupt over time? should I compress it and store it on DVD?

Also, does recovering from a ghost image shorted the life of that image, in which case after recovering from that ghost image so many times show I make a new one as soon as I have recovered?

Dingleberry88 · 6 Sep 2007 at 19:40

You'll be fine storing it on the HDD, but for the price of a DVD you might as well burn it too.

And you can restore an image as many times as you want.

willhub · 6 Sep 2007 at 22:58

Dingleberry88 said:
You'll be fine storing it on the HDD, but for the price of a DVD you might as well burn it too.

And you can restore an image as many times as you want.

Its 5.7gb though, DVD's are only 4.7GB

LeperousDust · 6 Sep 2007 at 23:00

Dual Layer

startrek2 · 7 Sep 2007 at 12:36

or in setting on ghost make it span to a file of 4.3 gb so you will hae 2 files itll ask for both during restore.

if its dos you use you juts make a ghost.ini and use spa in there same as above

firewallblocked · 7 Sep 2007 at 19:12

Dingleberry88 said:
You'll be fine storing it on the HDD, but for the price of a DVD you might as well burn it too.

And you can restore an image as many times as you want.

I also have an image on a second partition so I can recover to a clean image to allow me to install software for testing and so spyware/viruses can be removed guaranteed.

I'm using win xp so I can use Norton Ghost 2003 (best version ever

) thats one reason why I don't want to trasfer to vista. Unfortunately Norton Ghost 2003 doesn't like sata drives.

Norton Ghost 12 doesn't let you create images from the boot cd only restore. :mad:

Norton ghost 10 will change your system clock!

Whatever happened to testing! :rolleyes:

startrek2 · 9 Sep 2007 at 20:07

firewallblocked said:
I also have an image on a second partition so I can recover to a clean image to allow me to install software for testing and so spyware/viruses can be removed guaranteed.

I'm using win xp so I can use Norton Ghost 2003 (best version ever ) thats one reason why I don't want to trasfer to vista. Unfortunately Norton Ghost 2003 doesn't like sata drives.

norton ghost works ok with sata,, you have to create a ghost.ini file and put it in dir of ghost.exe the below files will help and the sata help is highlighted

use below in wordpad to make an ini file

span(Spanning) = N
autoname(AutoName) = Y
cns(Old Style Span Extensions) = N
crcignore(CRC Ignore) = N
fcr(Create CRC32) = N
f32(FAT32 Conversion) = N
f64(64K FAT Clusters) = N
fatlimit(FAT Limit) = N
sure(Sure) = N
fro(Force Cloning) = N
rb(Reboot) = N
fx(Exit to DOS) = N
defaultImg(Default) = Y
ia(Image All) = N
ib(Image Boot) = N
id(Image Disk) = N
defaultTape(Default) = Y
tapesafe(Tape Safe) = N
tapebuffered(Tape Buffered) = N
tapeunbuffered(Tape Unbuffered) = N
tapeeject(Tape Eject) = N
ffx(UseExtINT13) = N
fnx(DisableExtINT13) = N
ffi(DirectIDE) = N
fni(DisableDirectIDE) = Y ...this is sata help one you need Y
ffs(DirectASPI/SCSI) = N
fns(DisableDirectASPI/SCSI) = N
pwd(Prompt for password) = N
locktype-none(No BIOS lock) = Y
locktype-M(Manufacturer) = N
locktype-P(ProductName) = N
locktype-V(Version) = N
locktype-S(SerialNo) = N
locktype-U(UUID) = N
locktype-C(ManProduct) = N
locktype-I(P3ID) = N