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I tried using DriveImage on my XP machine and after restoring from the image all I got when booting was a blue screen of death. Ghost works fine -however it is not free.
I use the unspeakable, NTbackup! Well, I use it from BartPE and save the files to a external USB 2.0 hard disk, so it is a little non-standard. I get the benefit of opening the archive from most any XP PC without having to have Ghost or Drive Image available. I have used both ghost and Drive Image with reasonable success. Each had certain bugs, but that is expected. The only thing that I have not figured out is how to have the compression available under BartPE. NTbackup will bitch about certain dlls, so you track them down and copy them to the CD. I found it works better off the ram disk. However, I have no clue what dlls I need for compression. I suppose it is sysinternals time. I will need to stop putting off that project and figure it out.
I'm not really sure with the dd for windows, but as far as dd in general I've never had any problems, just as long as the drive space is equivalent in size or larger. One should be able to dd their hard drive after it is to their liking to an image or networked drive, and just dd from the image to the hdd when it is needed.
At work we use to use Norton Ghoast. However we got lazy cause we got tired of looking for Dos Drivers for the nic cards. So we use acronis backup server
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Closed AccountOct 2, 2006
I tried using DriveImage on my XP machine and after restoring from the image all I got when booting was a blue screen of death. Ghost works fine -however it is not free.
diggduggjoeOct 2, 2006
I use the unspeakable, NTbackup! Well, I use it from BartPE and save the files to a external USB 2.0 hard disk, so it is a little non-standard. I get the benefit of opening the archive from most any XP PC without having to have Ghost or Drive Image available. I have used both ghost and Drive Image with reasonable success. Each had certain bugs, but that is expected. The only thing that I have not figured out is how to have the compression available under BartPE. NTbackup will bitch about certain dlls, so you track them down and copy them to the CD. I found it works better off the ram disk. However, I have no clue what dlls I need for compression. I suppose it is sysinternals time. I will need to stop putting off that project and figure it out.
xajezOct 2, 2006
I'm not really sure with the dd for windows, but as far as dd in general I've never had any problems, just as long as the drive space is equivalent in size or larger. One should be able to dd their hard drive after it is to their liking to an image or networked drive, and just dd from the image to the hdd when it is needed.
riptechtvOct 14, 2006
At work we use to use Norton Ghoast. However we got lazy cause we got tired of looking for Dos Drivers for the nic cards. So we use acronis backup server
Closed AccountNov 8, 2006
Nice, I got an error when I tried going disk to disk. I ignored it and it copied perfectly.
yoshiiguanaFeb 13, 2008
All thanks to ghost...