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Why GHOST ?
Name: bill 2 Date: April 2, 2002 at 18:13:15 Pacific
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I have never used GHOST so I was wondering why it is preferred over using a zip file disk image? It seems to me that if you reformat before restoring the zip file it would be just as good. What am I missing here?
as I see it, Norton Ghost or Drive Image create an image copy of a partition/disk while no activity is happening on the drive. one of the main concerns I have of any backup program is that of what does any backup program you want to use do with open files? will it back them up and in what state will they be? especially if they are files which may be updated while you are doing your backup? if you back up a file while it is open, you may get a backup which is a fuzzy one, i.e. one that does not represent a still snapshot but rather a fuzzy one. that is why I use Norton Ghost for image copies. still need to find a good backup program to backup the images once created to CD, one that will backup files to multiple CDs.
good luck, Al
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Response Number 2
Name: bill 2 Date: April 3, 2002 at 07:36:19 Pacific
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Al: Thanks for the input. I hadn't taken partitions into consideration since I don't need them. I am going to look into this some more. I think I'll try it on a single partition system just to see how it goes.
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Response Number 3
Name: guru Date: April 3, 2002 at 14:55:42 Pacific
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hi guys, i've been using drive image for a few years now and would'nt be without it. it creates an image of the hdd ( any partition you want) and compress's it to about half the original size and allows you to store the image virtually anywhere that will hold it EG: CDROM, extra partition ect. it does not affect any open programs and when you restore the image to the drive it comes up excactly as it was when you made the image. it takes about ten minutes to restore the image to the hdd depending on the speed of the machine and the type of media the image was saved to. beats the hell out of a clean install and then loading programs one by one.
Agree with guru. I was able to clean install me, flip flop settings to get things the way i like. Install drivers/software and tweaks and then create the image. I was able to get it on a single cd-r. Reinstalling windows is now a one step process.
Forgot to mention..... Create an extended partition and store all of your data on it. This way you wont have to deal with moving it around when your ready to start fresh.
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