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Freeware with functionality of Norton Ghost?
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| sydbarrett74@gmail.com 2006-06-30, 1:14 pm |
| Hello all,
I seek a freeware app that has the functionality of Norton Ghost. I
need it to do the following: take my drive and image it so that I can
burn the image to an external USB DVD burner, and then later restore
the image. I am upgrading from a 40GB to a 120GB drive (the OS is
Windows 2003 server) and don't want to have to set everything back up
since there's a lot of data and installed apps on that server. I
googled backup software and there are lots of hits: I'm just looking
for some guidance on this group for what you think some top freeware
picks are. 
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| beenthere 2006-06-30, 1:14 pm |
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<sydbarrett74@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1151679379.156635.132680@x69g2000cwx.googlegroups.com...
> Hello all,
> I seek a freeware app that has the functionality of Norton Ghost. I
> need it to do the following: take my drive and image it so that I can
> burn the image to an external USB DVD burner, and then later restore
> the image. I am upgrading from a 40GB to a 120GB drive (the OS is
> Windows 2003 server) and don't want to have to set everything back up
> since there's a lot of data and installed apps on that server. I
> googled backup software and there are lots of hits: I'm just looking
> for some guidance on this group for what you think some top freeware
> picks are.
>
Go to alt.comp.freeware, and ask the same question.
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| On 30 Jun 2006 07:56:19 -0700, sydbarrett74@gmail.com wrote:
> Hello all,
> I seek a freeware app that has the functionality of Norton Ghost. I
> need it to do the following: take my drive and image it so that I can
> burn the image to an external USB DVD burner, and then later restore
> the image. I am upgrading from a 40GB to a 120GB drive (the OS is
> Windows 2003 server) and don't want to have to set everything back up
> since there's a lot of data and installed apps on that server. I
> googled backup software and there are lots of hits: I'm just looking
> for some guidance on this group for what you think some top freeware
> picks are.
http://kadaitcha.cx/backup.html
scroll down to "Free and Open Source Disk Imaging Software"
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| Mooron 2006-06-30, 7:13 pm |
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sydbarrett74@gmail.com wrote:
> Hello all,
> I seek a freeware app that has the functionality of Norton Ghost. I
> need it to do the following: take my drive and image it so that I can
> burn the image to an external USB DVD burner, and then later restore
> the image. I am upgrading from a 40GB to a 120GB drive (the OS is
> Windows 2003 server) and don't want to have to set everything back up
> since there's a lot of data and installed apps on that server. I
> googled backup software and there are lots of hits: I'm just looking
> for some guidance on this group for what you think some top freeware
> picks are.
I did that a couple of days ago. I went from a 20GB to an 80GB
drive. I connected the new drive with a USB cable and used
the "clone drive" function in Acronis True Image 9.0.
When the copy finished, I just replaced the drive.
It worked perfectly.
The less expensive "home" version of TI will not resize
partitions during a restore, you have to use the "clone"
function which means you have to have both drives connected
at the same time. USB cables for IDE drives are cheap, $20
at NewEgg, and are worth having around.
- Mooron
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| Mooron 2006-07-01, 1:14 pm |
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Mooron wrote:
> sydbarrett74@gmail.com wrote:
>
> I did that a couple of days ago. I went from a 20GB to an 80GB
> drive. I connected the new drive with a USB cable and used
> the "clone drive" function in Acronis True Image 9.0.
> When the copy finished, I just replaced the drive.
> It worked perfectly.
>
> The less expensive "home" version of TI will not resize
> partitions during a restore, you have to use the "clone"
> function which means you have to have both drives connected
> at the same time. USB cables for IDE drives are cheap, $20
> at NewEgg, and are worth having around.
>
> - Mooron
That was wrong, you can resize partitions on restore.
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| sanchan 2006-07-03, 7:13 pm |
| I know a better way to do it. There is also a free trial for you to test:
http://www.vancouverfinder.org/roi/roi-bck_cpl.html
<sydbarrett74@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1151679379.156635.132680@x69g2000cwx.googlegroups.com...
> Hello all,
> I seek a freeware app that has the functionality of Norton Ghost. I
> need it to do the following: take my drive and image it so that I can
> burn the image to an external USB DVD burner, and then later restore
> the image. I am upgrading from a 40GB to a 120GB drive (the OS is
> Windows 2003 server) and don't want to have to set everything back up
> since there's a lot of data and installed apps on that server. I
> googled backup software and there are lots of hits: I'm just looking
> for some guidance on this group for what you think some top freeware
> picks are.
>
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