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Puzzling problem with Ghost 2003
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| Ted Campanelli 2006-11-13, 8:17 am |
| I have 2 machines at home. Machine 1 has XP sp1 upgraded to sp2 via the
Microsoft D/L. Machine 2 has XP sp2 installed from the cd.
On machine 1 I can create and restore with Ghost 2003 with no problems.
On machine 2 Ghost 2003 creates a new C partition when ever you try to
create a disk image.
Any suggestions on how to correct the problem with machine 2 ?
If correcting the problem is not possible, can an imaging software with
the following conditions be suggested:
Must image to a dvd
Must be self booting OR have a separate boot disk for restoring
Must be reasonably fast
Must be fairly easy to use
I have tried True Image 10. After going through 20 BRAND NEW DVD, the
program FINALLY found a couple of disks it liked. As for speed...
SLOOOOOOOW is the best description. On machine 1 Ghost takes about 45
minutes to image and verify 9 gig of information. TI 10 says 3 1/2
HOURS !!!
Ghost 10 - Does it provide for self booting dvd or a separate boot disk
? I could find nothing on this with the trial demo.
Thanks
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| Chuck U. Farley 2006-11-13, 1:12 pm |
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>On machine 1 I can create and restore with Ghost 2003 with no problems.
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>On machine 2 Ghost 2003 creates a new C partition when ever you try to
>create a disk image.
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>Any suggestions on how to correct the problem with machine 2 ?
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Ghost 2003 evidently doesn't work with fresh install SP2 boxes. The
only way I've found to get it to work, and I didn't try it, is
described here:
http://tinyurl.com/yd6gby
I'm giving True Image a trial as it does work with my SP2 box
>If correcting the problem is not possible, can an imaging software with
>the following conditions be suggested:
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>Must image to a dvd
I've yet to find a way to do this directly with TI. It'll burn a boot
CD but from inside the program there's no way to directly burn an
backup image to DV/CD, at least that I've found. My workaround is to
directly burn the backup image from my D: drive to DVD with my
standard burning program, Nero.
>Must be self booting OR have a separate boot disk for restoring
TI will do it.
>Must be reasonably fast
The backup time for my 5 gig base install system is pretty nominal and
may even be a bit faster with TI than Ghost 2003,so I'm not sure what
is causing TI to take so long on your system. I validate the backup
image in both programs and they take about the same time for me. Do
you verify the image in Ghost 2003 and validate it in TI?
>Must be fairly easy to use
TI is.
>I have tried True Image 10. After going through 20 BRAND NEW DVD, the
>program FINALLY found a couple of disks it liked. As for speed...
>SLOOOOOOOW is the best description. On machine 1 Ghost takes about 45
>minutes to image and verify 9 gig of information. TI 10 says 3 1/2
>HOURS !!!
The time counter starts off very high but rapidly decreases and
becomes accurate. My 5 gig system takes about 14 minutes with TI
>Ghost 10 - Does it provide for self booting dvd or a separate boot disk
>? I could find nothing on this with the trial demo.
I gave Ghost 10 a trial three years ago when I evaluated it with TI
and Ghost 2003. I hated it. It was very intrusive on system resouces,
required lots of startup stuff and I just didn't trust it. I also
disliked TI at the time because of their poor/non-existant support for
burning back CD/DVD's.
This time around, TI is working nicely for me, with my cludge for
burning a backup, and I'm not having the time issues you are. But I'm
still queasy about backing up from within XP. Unlike most, I _liked_
the fact that Ghost 2003 shelled to DOS to backup.
Good luck.
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