Norton Ghost Problem :(

andy.allard

andy.allard

andy.allard

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Hey everyone,

I dont know about you but i'm a little tired of having to install a fresh copy of windows when things get a little slow!

On my laptop there is a hidden partition that has an image of the laptop as it was when it left the factory, this is great. All i have to do is press F9 on boot and it gives me the option to restore from the image.

My question is how can i do a similar thing on my desktop? It somehow uses norton ghost to load the backup but i dont know how to take a backup of the system without installing ghost, and this way ghost is installed when i dont want it to be.

Hope one of you clever folks out there can shed some light on the situation!

Thanks in advance,

Andy.
 
It's quite easy to do with ghost tbh, simply make a bootable usb stick or cd with ghost on. Boot up with this and create your image, making sure all the hard drives you need to copy from and to are attatched beforehand.

EDIT: If you have ghost on a cd, isn't it bootable anyway?
 
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i tried Ghost, but it was talking about making boot disks etc and i didnt know how to do that, do didn't bother!!!

I now have acronis and norton, but both still haven't been installed! Which is better? and how the **** do i make the book disk?!
 
Windows 7 Pro has this built in, I won't claim it's fast but it's a lot less messing about than any of the others and can be done whilst you're still using the PC.
 
ivrytwr3 said:
i tried Ghost, but it was talking about making boot disks etc and i didnt know how to do that, do didn't bother!!!

I now have acronis and norton, but both still haven't been installed! Which is better? and how the **** do i make the book disk?!
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Acronis True Image is better by far.
 
Use Acronis. It has an option to create an Acronis boot disk, from which the machine will boot into the Acronis recovery software when required.
 
Lee said:
Use Acronis. It has an option to create an Acronis boot disk, from which the machine will boot into the Acronis recovery software when required.
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and you can setup the 'secure zone' which is a hidden partition with Acronis installed on it along with your backup image
 
d.chatten said:
Acronis True Image is better by far.
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Than Ghost?

Don't agree with this - Ghost you make two disks (if you want CDROM or NIC support if not then you can get away with one) and that's it.

Ghost is far quicker, compresses far more and very easy to use.

Acronis is a hell of a lot slower, sometimes doesn't image the boot block (needs a Windows Vista CD to repair it to get it to boot) and leaves a much bigger image file.

They do both do the job though so if you have only Acronis available to you then so be it. If I had the choice though I'd be getting my Ghost disks out.



M.
 
Acronis takes an image of my C: which is around 44Gb. The backup image takes around 20-30 minutes to create and verify, and is 18.5Gb in size.

There is an option to choose the amount of compression you want, i use the high setting with very high left to go.

No complaints with it.

Have had to restore from backup twice, can't remember exactly how long it took, but it was less than 20 mins.
 
m4cc45 said:
Acronis is a hell of a lot slower, sometimes doesn't image the boot block (needs a Windows Vista CD to repair it to get it to boot) and leaves a much bigger image file.
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Ghost will also do this if you chose to image a partition and the boot block option isn't checked, I know because I once spent ages trying to figure out why a partition restore would make the system non-bootable.
 
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