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ndeller · 12 Dec 2007 at 12:48

Whats the best ghosting utility?

I have just setup XP with office 2003, antivirus, drivers, patches etc and want to create an image of my drive for recovery reasons in the future.

any recommendations are welcome
Thanks
Nick

neil_g · 12 Dec 2007 at 12:52

ive used norton (now symantec) ghost, does the job imo..

ndeller · 12 Dec 2007 at 12:57

which version are you using?

neil_g · 12 Dec 2007 at 12:59

this was a while ago, was version 9. theyre on 12 now i think

ndeller · 12 Dec 2007 at 13:00

Yeah see i used to use Version 9 but dont want version 12 as I dont like the look of it.

Are there any other names at all?

marc2003 · 12 Dec 2007 at 13:01

acronis true image is the forum favourite for this.

ndeller · 12 Dec 2007 at 13:03

I will download a trial of this and give it a go.

Thanks Marc

jbloggs · 12 Dec 2007 at 13:57

If you have either a Seagate or Maxtor HDD in your setup you can use either DiskWizard or MaxBlast for this purpose, which is basically Acronis TI 10 with a couple of very insignificant features removed...