Has anyone tried Norton Ghost 9.0 yet?

earthmofo · Post by **earthmofo** » Tue Sep 14, 2004 6:37 pm

I just got a copy of it and there has been quite a lot of changes. I haven't really folled around with it yet but I did do a disk copy to my backup hd and it didn't boot to dos. Just did everything within Windows. Seemed to be faster that way.

zooner · Post by **zooner** » Wed Sep 15, 2004 12:11 pm

I've been thinking of acquiring it.

Will it allow you to ghost your main HD while it's running? How does it accomplish rewritting that hard drive??

thanks

earthmofo · Post by **earthmofo** » Wed Sep 15, 2004 7:24 pm

It did the disk copy from within Windows. Ghost never rebooted to dos at all. Haven't really tried anything other than the disk copy yet though.

I have a 20 gig spare HD partitioned into two 10 gig's and use the first for a backup of a clean install of my OS with all my tweaks and the programs I use the most. The second partition is for backups of my OS as it stands now with all the addons. If anything happens it only takes about 10 minutes to get back up and running.

When I have the time I going to try to ghost the OS back to my main drive just to see how it does it.

westy · Post by **westy** » Wed Sep 22, 2004 10:20 am

earthmofo wrote:It did the disk copy from within Windows. Ghost never rebooted to dos at all. Haven't really tried anything other than the disk copy yet though.

Can you do a "check image" (can't think of what it's actual term is) to verify the image you made is o.k. ? I know you can with the previous version of Ghost.

earthmofo · Post by **earthmofo** » Thu Sep 23, 2004 7:49 am

Yes you can. It has the same features as 8.0. I finally got around to ghosting the OS back to my main drive but you need the boot disk to be able to do it. I thought it would have just booted to dos to do it like in 8.0.

Joint Chiefs of Staff · Thu Sep 23, 2004 11:28 am

I've purchased and used Norton Ghost for 11 years. I got rid of it this past year. Use Acronis TrueImage. You won't be disappointed.

Rainbow · Post by **Rainbow** » Thu Sep 23, 2004 12:09 pm

Will it back up to CDr"s?

westy · Post by **westy** » Thu Sep 23, 2004 12:21 pm

earthmofo wrote:Yes you can. It has the same features as 8.0. I finally got around to ghosting the OS back to my main drive but you need the boot disk to be able to do it. I thought it would have just booted to dos to do it like in 8.0.

Do you mean that you have to have a floppy drive to restore an image to your hard drive ? That's a bummer 'cause I scrapped my floppy drive years ago.........

Can a guy make a boot CD ?

Joint Chiefs of Staff · Thu Sep 23, 2004 12:33 pm

Rainbow wrote:Will it back up to CDr"s?

It will do anything you tell the program to do. Read the linkage and tell yourself to throw out Ghost. ]http://www.acronis.com/products/trueimage/[/url]

DLaporte · Post by **DLaporte** » Thu Oct 21, 2004 1:59 pm

I have succesfully created an image of a hard drive while in the OS directly to a DVD-R.
I tried to create an image of a partitioned hard drive (3 partitions) and when it recorded the image to the DVD-R it prompts you that it may not see the other partitions and indeed upon completion the DVD only had the first partition on it! I haven't tried using an -RW yet, but I think it might fix that problem.

I ran the restore CD and was able to retrieve the image off of the DVD-R and restore it to a new HD. You do not need a floppy. You just have to get to the browse window (where it is asking for the location of the image) then remove the recovery CD and place your CD image into the CD-ROM.

Dante'