Norton ghost what exactly does it do

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Will it make an exact copy of the hard drive including all setting on that pc


The reason i ask is because my hard drive on my machine broke, everything was backed up so it was not a big deal. The only thing that was a pain was the fact that all my mapped drives, lincences and tokens had to be re-installed, which took a little while to restore.

I thought if i had a image of the 5 PCs on our small network stored on an external hard drive if this every happened again and i ghosted each machine the restoring would be 1 hours work rather that the day it took me.

Sorry about the long winded question

Thanks
 
Ghost will make an exact clone. You would not know the difference if you ghosted your current system onto another hard disk and swapped them over, for example. Depending on the size of the image, it can sometimes only take 5-15mins to restore (depends on size of data).
 
Thats sound like just what i need. Thanks

Is it easy to use for a slightly above average user? I am the network admin because i know how to attach a file to an e-mail :)
 
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Personally Ghost is much better than True Image.

The reason I say this is that I have imaged thousands of machines and used pretty much every tool and found ghost to be the quickest and best at what it does.

True Image is a lot slower. When I imaged Vista x64 with True Image as a test due to peoples recommendations it didn't image it properly meaning that when I restore the image I have to boot of the Vista x64 CD and then repair the installation before it will boot.

With Ghost you make two floppy disks, boot from them and choose which partition or entire disk you want and where you want it going to (other partition / DVD / LAN / USB drive) and that's pretty much it. A typical 8GB image to another partition will take around 10 minutes.



M.
 
m4cc45 said:
Personally Ghost is much better than True Image.

The reason I say this is that I have imaged thousands of machines and used pretty much every tool and found ghost to be the quickest and best at what it does.

True Image is a lot slower. When I imaged Vista x64 with True Image as a test due to peoples recommendations it didn't image it properly meaning that when I restore the image I have to boot of the Vista x64 CD and then repair the installation before it will boot.

With Ghost you make two floppy disks, boot from them and choose which partition or entire disk you want and where you want it going to (other partition / DVD / LAN / USB drive) and that's pretty much it. A typical 8GB image to another partition will take around 10 minutes.



M.
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What about machines without floppy drives could I use a usb stick?


And is it 1 license per machine imaged or can I do as many machines as I like for the purchase price
 
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Chabsy said:
What about machines without floppy drives could I use a usb stick?


And is it 1 license per machine imaged or can I do as many machines as I like for the purchase price
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Create the image on a bootable USB stick or CDROM.

I did the make 2 floppies thing for an easy reference you can still use the CD, etc. if you want to.


M.
 
ive not used ghost, but with true image you do that from CD, boot up from CD and let the program load, exchange the CD for the partition on DVD or other location etc..

and restore, has a nice and easy gui
 
Tryed both and since Acronis decided to not like my SATA controller (ICH9, not in Raid or ACHI) It wouldn't let me see my harddrives and i don't have a floppy drive!

Ghost is flawless for me.

For example, I get a virus.. 11minutes for my 15gb image and im back to how the computer was at 5am. Absolute god send imo.

But if acronis works for you then theres nothing wrong with it - does the exact same thing.

ta

alec
 
I use Ghost every day at work and I never have a problem with it, although I havn't used Acronis, I can say Ghost is still good.

- Pea0n
 
allllec said:
Tryed both and since Acronis decided to not like my SATA controller (ICH9, not in Raid or ACHI) It wouldn't let me see my harddrives and i don't have a floppy drive!

Ghost is flawless for me.

For example, I get a virus.. 11minutes for my 15gb image and im back to how the computer was at 5am. Absolute god send imo.

But if acronis works for you then theres nothing wrong with it - does the exact same thing.

ta

alec
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If you have an Intel P35 chipset motherboard and are using Acronis True Image 10 you may get problems, when I bought Acronis True Image 11 they had fixed the problem and it works very well.

With Norton Ghost 12 you have to install to image whereas with Acronis you can boot from cd to create an image.

When using XP on my Athlon 64 I often use Norton Ghost 2003, but Acronis for newer stuff and for imaging to my external hard drive.
 
firewallblocked said:
If you have an Intel P35 chipset motherboard and are using Acronis True Image 10 you may get problems, when I bought Acronis True Image 11 they had fixed the problem and it works very well.

With Norton Ghost 12 you have to install to image whereas with Acronis you can boot from cd to create an image.

When using XP on my Athlon 64 I often use Norton Ghost 2003, but Acronis for newer stuff and for imaging to my external hard drive.
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Depends on the version you're using. I boot of a CD and image it that way. I use disks if I'm doing network imaging as the drivers are different.


M.
 
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