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Ghost 2003/notebook/USB external drive?
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| Leanin' Cedar 2006-04-29, 1:12 pm |
| I can't seem to get the correct setup for using Ghost 2003 to recognize the
USB external drive on my notebook.
No problems with my desktop and firewire drives.
Also is it possible to use ghost with a wireless setup making an image from
the notebook to one of the desktop internal drives?
Thanks
Bob
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| Sam Bench 2006-04-29, 1:12 pm |
| I was using Ghost 2003 for the past few years. It absolutely sucks. When I
had a hard drive crash all the backups that I did for years were of no
value. Get rid of it and get True Image or some other software that works.
"Leanin' Cedar" <Nospam@nospam.org> wrote in message
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>I can't seem to get the correct setup for using Ghost 2003 to recognize the
>USB external drive on my notebook.
>
> No problems with my desktop and firewire drives.
>
> Also is it possible to use ghost with a wireless setup making an image
> from the notebook to one of the desktop internal drives?
>
> Thanks
> Bob
>
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| Leanin' Cedar 2006-04-29, 1:12 pm |
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"Sam Bench" <roykoch@comcast.net> wrote in message
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>I was using Ghost 2003 for the past few years. It absolutely sucks. When
>I had a hard drive crash all the backups that I did for years were of no
>value. Get rid of it and get True Image or some other software that works.
sorry to hear about you misfortune with Ghost 2003. I have used it for year,
it has restored by HDD a couple of times after installing software, and even
was successful in putting in a larger master HDD, from 80GB to 120 GB and
expanded the 4 partitions on the drive perfectly.
Bob
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| Howard Kaikow 2006-04-30, 1:13 am |
| "Leanin' Cedar" <Nospam@nospam.org> wrote in message
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> I can't seem to get the correct setup for using Ghost 2003 to recognize
the
> USB external drive on my notebook.
>
> No problems with my desktop and firewire drives.
>
> Also is it possible to use ghost with a wireless setup making an image
from
> the notebook to one of the desktop internal drives?
The first question is whether the USB drive is assigned a drive letter in
windoze explorer.
If not, you cannot expect any software to be able to access the drive.
If Windoze explorer can see the drive, then you need to get newer software.
Acronis True Image 9 is one choice but do not install the version you
purchase. Instead register the software and then download the latest build
3567.
If you are running Win XP, last month Symantec released Norton Save and
Restore, which looks like it may be a replacement for Ghost and competes
directly with True Image.
If you are not running Win XP, you could get Ghost 10.
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| Gerard Bok 2006-04-30, 1:14 pm |
| On Sat, 29 Apr 2006 14:52:44 -0400, "Sam Bench"
<roykoch@comcast.net> wrote:
>"Leanin' Cedar" <Nospam@nospam.org> wrote in message
>news:j0M4g.11389$Es3.800@newsread3.news.atl.earthlink.net...
[vbcol=seagreen]
>I was using Ghost 2003 for the past few years. It absolutely sucks. When I
>had a hard drive crash all the backups that I did for years were of no
>value.
For what reason were they 'of no value' ?
--
Kind regards,
Gerard Bok
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| Sam Bench 2006-04-30, 7:14 pm |
| Ghost 2003 was of no value to me because I backed up my primary drive to
another identical hard drive using the clone setting on Ghost. After my
primary crashed the backup would not boot. I ended up reformatting it and
reloading all my software. I now use Casper XP. I have tested it
repeatedly and the backup hard drive boots nicely.
"Gerard Bok" <bok118@zonnet.nl> wrote in message
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> On Sat, 29 Apr 2006 14:52:44 -0400, "Sam Bench"
> <roykoch@comcast.net> wrote:
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> For what reason were they 'of no value' ?
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> --
> Kind regards,
> Gerard Bok
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| Gerard Bok 2006-05-01, 7:13 am |
| On Sun, 30 Apr 2006 17:29:36 -0400, "Sam Bench"
<roykoch@comcast.net> wrote:
>Ghost 2003 was of no value to me because I backed up my primary drive to
>another identical hard drive using the clone setting on Ghost. After my
>primary crashed the backup would not boot. I ended up reformatting it and
>reloading all my software.
Sorry to hear that. And: what a waste !
It's the PC's architecture that prevents you from having 2
bootable drives at the same time. Not Norton Ghost.
(Only one partition is supposed to be 'active' at any given time.
Some PC's allow 2 active partitions, while others crash horribly
on the same situation.)
Rather than reinstalling Windows, you should have used the
Windows XP CD's 'repair' function to make your clone bootable.
--
Kind regards,
Gerard Bok
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| Chuck U. Farley 2006-05-01, 2:12 pm |
| > >Ghost 2003 was of no value to me because I backed up my primary drive to
and[vbcol=seagreen]
[vbcol=seagreen]
> Rather than reinstalling Windows, you should have used the
> Windows XP CD's 'repair' function to make your clone bootable.
If the OP would have done a regular image backup instead of cloning the
drive, all he would have had to do would be to restore the image of his
original system to the replaced boot drive. He's blaming the s/w for his
poor choice in backup modes.
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| beenthere 2006-05-01, 2:12 pm |
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"Chuck U. Farley" <chuckufarley@dyslexia.com> wrote in message
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> and
>
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> If the OP would have done a regular image backup instead of cloning the
> drive, all he would have had to do would be to restore the image of his
> original system to the replaced boot drive. He's blaming the s/w for his
> poor choice in backup modes.
>
Usual problem Chuck. He doesn`t know his clone
from his image <g>.
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