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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>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 ?
>
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:
>
>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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