Norton Ghost (Systemworks 2003) will not run on my new Dell PC - well it runs but freezes the PC at the reboot, and nothing happens. Can anyone suggest an alternative for taking an image of the boot partition (ie drive c)

Roy Lambert

Roy Lambert wrote:
> Norton Ghost (Systemworks 2003) will not run on my new Dell PC - well
> it runs but freezes the PC at the reboot, and nothing happens. Can
> anyone suggest an alternative for taking an image of the boot
> partition (ie drive c)   

Acronis TrueImage.

Ralf

Ralf Mimoun wrote <<
   Acronis TrueImage.
  >>

I just tried Acronis the other day and gave up.

My laptop with new PC_Card NIc and 3GB of files took 2
hours to get 60% imaged to a network file server before I
pulled the plug.  After I eventually got the right Ndis2
drivers for the card bus and NIc sorted out, my old
DriveImage 2000 did the whole job in 25 minutes, including
the re-boots.  Sorry, Roy, you can't get DI any more -
swallowed up by Symantec.

Imaging under Windows is convenient .. but not quick in my
short experience.  Acronis is highly rated by the way, just
didn't work for me.

Malcolm

Malcolm wrote:
> Ralf Mimoun wrote <<
>    Acronis TrueImage.
>   >>
>
> I just tried Acronis the other day and gave up.
>
> My laptop with new PC_Card NIc and 3GB of files took 2
> hours to get 60% imaged to a network file server before I
> pulled the plug.

I copy my notebook hd, about 80 GB on a USB drive. Every night. The backup
has a size of about 40 GB and needs 1:15. 75 minutes. I can live with that


> After I eventually got the right Ndis2
> drivers for the card bus and NIc sorted out, my old
> DriveImage 2000 did the whole job in 25 minutes, including
> the re-boots.  Sorry, Roy, you can't get DI any more -
> swallowed up by Symantec.

Did you try TrueImage with the right drivers, too?

Ralf

Ralf Mimoun wrote <<
  Did you try TrueImage with the right drivers, too?
>>

Hi Ralph

I used the Windows Card Bus and NIC drivers in my trial and
did the Image with Windows running but otherwise idle,
image attempted to fileserver over a quiet 100Mbps LAN.

I didn't try it to a local or removable drive as I wanted
to do it to the server like my other machines.

Do you make your image under DOS or does Windows stay up
all the time?  I agree, 40GB in 75 minutes is OK in Windows
(leaves tape for dead).

My problem with the DOS drivers for DriveImage was getting
the card Bus to 'see' the particular PC-Card NIC (now
solved, I needed a couple of extra drivers running first).

Malcolm

I use something called Casper XP.

http://www.fssdev.com/products/casperxp/

Sean


Roy Lambert wrote:

> Norton Ghost (Systemworks 2003) will not run on my new Dell PC - well it runs but freezes the PC at the reboot, and nothing happens. Can anyone suggest an alternative for taking an image of the boot partition (ie drive c)
>
> Roy Lambert

I'm using Acronis also....

Jon

Ralf Mimoun wrote:
> Roy Lambert wrote:
>> Norton Ghost (Systemworks 2003) will not run on my new Dell PC - well
>> it runs but freezes the PC at the reboot, and nothing happens. Can
>> anyone suggest an alternative for taking an image of the boot
>> partition (ie drive c)   
>
> Acronis TrueImage.
>
> Ralf

Malcolm wrote:
....
> Do you make your image under DOS or does Windows stay up
> all the time?  I agree, 40GB in 75 minutes is OK in Windows
> (leaves tape for dead).

Windows is running all night, Acronis makes a backup on the fly. Accessing
the backup file as a drive is also very useful.

Ralf

Ralf Mimoun wrote <<
  Windows is running all night, Acronis makes a backup on
  the fly. Accessing the backup file as a drive is also
  very useful.
>>

Perhaps I should give it another try.  Not having to reboot
would be nice if I can get it running quicker.

Malcolm

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Roy Lambert wrote:
> Norton Ghost (Systemworks 2003) will not run on my new Dell PC - well it runs but freezes the PC at the reboot, and nothing happens. Can anyone suggest an alternative for taking an image of the boot partition (ie drive c)
>
> Roy Lambert

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