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From: Flasherly on 10 Sep 2009 15:59
On Sep 9, 10:31 am, "Glenn" <gl...(a)kc.rr.com> wrote:
> Anyone have a favorite ghosting program? Norton seems to dominate and I
> don't want anything with their name on my machine. Been there and done
> that. {G}

Earlier, it was essentially small and a DOS program. That's what I
keep for a boot arbitrator when restoring just Windows. Tolerably
small binary GHO images, even after a long time of installations
(which go elsewhere, although there's some core components and
registry changes to the OS drive). The bloatware that characterizes
later Norton/Symantec is OK, I suppose depending on what version, for
backwardly-compatible looking into an earlier DOS GHO image for
particulars.
From: H-Man on 10 Sep 2009 17:34
On Thu, 10 Sep 2009 07:09:43 +0700, Sul(a)Albasani wrote:

> "H-Man" <I-Hate(a)Spam.sucks> wrote in message
> news:4aa7c710$0$65861$892e0abb(a)auth.newsreader.octanews.com...
>> On Wed, 9 Sep 2009 09:31:01 -0500, Glenn wrote:
>>
>>> Anyone have a favorite ghosting program? Norton seems to dominate and I
>>> don't want anything with their name on my machine. Been there and done
>>> that. {G}
>>
>> both of these work pretty well
>>
>> http://www.runtime.org/driveimage-xml.htm
>> http://www.todo-backup.com/
>>
>>
>> --
>> HK
>
> I wonder what is the size of the backup image for http://www.todo-backup.com/

The Easeus product has 3 compression levels you can specify, the results
are close to what the commercial product I use provides.

The downside of the Easeus product are as follows;
1) it is slower than the commercial app I use
2) there is no facility for scheduling
3) cannot do incremental or differential backups.
4) has problems with some hard drive configs. It will still work but will
do a sector by sector backup. A sector by sector backup is not really
reliable when imaging your system drive, this should be done from a
different boot disk. BartPE is supported via plugin.

The advantages of the Easeus product are;
1) it's freeware
2) developers are actively working on the known bugs for the next version
3) it works well if there are no hard drive issues
4) does not require Windows Volume Shadow Services. I have one PC that I
cannot get the VSS service working properly. This limits my backup options
somewhat as some other products require this service to be installed and
running.
5) does not care which version of Windows OS (Win2k and newer) you are on.
It will image a server OS system drive. This is good for creating a
recovery disk without spending a huge amount of cash. I have a Win2K server
running and it sucks that there is no other freeware like this that works.


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HK
From: H-Man on 10 Sep 2009 17:39
On Wed, 9 Sep 2009 18:16:32 -0500, AlleyCat wrote:

> In article <h88e8d$d3q$1(a)news.albasani.net>, glenn(a)kc.rr.com says...
>> Anyone have a favorite ghosting program? Norton seems to dominate and I
>> don't want anything with their name on my machine. Been there and done
>> that. {G}
>>
>>
>
> You asked for favorite... mine is still Norton. It is not an installed
> version. I'm with you about putting Norton products on the computer. I
> do have GhostExplorer, but I don't think I had to install it either. If
> I did, it's not intrusive at all. I like the GhstExp.... I can restore
> things from years ago without having to re-image the drive. I don't know
> anything about the other software titles or if they have their own
> "explorer" type programs, but I'm quite happy running Norton Ghost....
> and WindowsXP... for all you Linux freaks out there. Get a life...
> please!
>
> Al

Ghost, at one time, required you boot without Windows to image a drive. Is
this still the case? If so it would make scheduling kinda difficult.

I do agree with the quality of the product however. When I did use it
regularly (in the Win9x days), it never once let me down.

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HK
From: Thore on 11 Sep 2009 07:38
On Wed, 09 Sep 2009 22:26:53 -0500, M.L. <me(a)privacy.invalid> wrote:

>
>
>>> Anyone have a favorite ghosting program? Norton seems to dominate and I
>>> don't want anything with their name on my machine. Been there and done
>>> that. {G}
>
>>You asked for favorite... mine is still Norton. It is not an installed
>>version. I'm with you about putting Norton products on the computer. I
>>do have GhostExplorer, but I don't think I had to install it either. If
>>I did, it's not intrusive at all. I like the GhstExp.... I can restore
>>things from years ago without having to re-image the drive. I don't know
>>anything about the other software titles or if they have their own
>>"explorer" type programs, but I'm quite happy running Norton Ghost....
>>and WindowsXP
>
>Macrium Reflect Free has the ability to explore its archives and
>extract files from them.
>
>Macrium Reflect Free
>Pros: Boot recovery CD, scheduler, can extract individual files and
>folders
>Cons: No incremental backups
>OS: Win XP/2003/Vista/2008
>http://www.macrium.com/reflectfree.asp

But you can't boot from CD and make the backup/image. It's a
recovery-only boot cd...:(

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From: Ivan V. Klattrup on 11 Sep 2009 08:02
Glenn skrev:

>Anyone have a favorite ghosting program?

Ping
http://ping.windowsdream.com/

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