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April 13th, 2005 14:00

norton ghost 2003??

I was going to purchase this to make an image of my drive but I read that it can not back up my disk to a USB drive ?? I have an external USB harddrive and I want something that I can use to do a drive image so if I have problems i don't have to reninstall the whole system.
Is there anything out there that is easy to use and dependable that I can use with USB1??
Thanks
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    farmer70acre

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    Posted April 13th, 2005 15:00

    But I was reading about this also and sooo many people are having problems with the 9.0. Not reading the disk, error messages, messing up their system, not restoring the image, image browser crashing, "NTLDR is Missing" error, deleted the drivers for optical drives,  one wouldn't allow them to use cdr drive until they uninstalled nortonghost 9, and I know from experience their tech support stinks most of the time. Is there a good alternative or has symantec bought them all out?
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    Mary G

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    Posted April 13th, 2005 15:00

    The new version Norton Ghost 9.0 can. http://www.symantec.com/sabu/ghost/ghost_personal/features.html 
    BTW- Ghost 2003 is not for Win XP! It's for ME, 98 etc. You don't want that version anyway since you have XP.

    Message Edited by Mary G on 04-13-2005 12:04 PM

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    Posted April 13th, 2005 17:00

    FWIW . . I am using Ghost 2003 on several  XP machines and it works fine . . and it will put the image on a usb external drive.  2003 seems not to have some of the issues that v. 9 is

    wrs

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    Posted April 13th, 2005 18:00

    This link affirms XP- and USB compatibility; not that simpswr would kid you.

    http://ghost.radified.com/

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    msil217

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    Posted April 13th, 2005 19:00

    Ghost 2003 not for XP??????

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    simpswr

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    Posted April 13th, 2005 19:00

    That is a really good guide to Ghost . . thanks . .
     
    moi would kid? ? ?
     
    wrs
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    Posted April 14th, 2005 01:00


    @msil217 wrote:
    Ghost 2003 not for XP??????


    I use it on XP SP1 and SP2.
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    Posted April 14th, 2005 01:00

    As others have told you,  Ghost 2003 will work for you.  You will have to boot to DOS to use it,  but it will work.

    As for other software,  I personally like Acronis True Image (v8 is the current).  It runs under Windows (and will even image your Windows partition while in Windows).  True Image also supports the concept of "incremental" backups so that you make a full image,  then much smaller (and quicker) incrementals such that you can restore the drive to the state at the time any of the incrementals was taken.  One last thing,  which I have not used yet is scheduled imaging,  so that it can be configured to run on a re-occuring schedule.

    I have restored Ghost and True Image images into several different notebooks,  including Dells and IBM ThinkPads.

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    farmer70acre

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    Posted April 14th, 2005 17:00

    how to boot to dos with xp?? my floppy drive gives me fits alot. I don't use it anymore because more than half the time it won't read the floppies! so how would I do this without a floppy?
    Thanks

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