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Norton ghost or similar?

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MaXimus

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in teh past...i used to use Norton Ghost (the old version), setup my system top notch, then just restore back my backup ghost when my system gets fucked, but now i tried that with the new ghost 10.0, it told me I needed floppy disks bla bla bla since it can't perform teh operation in teh windows. so which program would you recommend for doing this task more simply. I dont even have a damn flopph dr!ve
 
Acronis True Image. Very good software, and compatible with a broad range of systems and hard drives.
 
LoStMaTt said:
Acronis True Image. Very good software, and compatible with a broad range of systems and hard drives.
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Where can I get it? is it free?
 
Acronis is good, I bought it maybe a month ago after a nasty format. I got an image of my windows partition after all the updates, driver installs, and my main programs installed. I haven't had to use it yet, so don't know how painless the backup will be. But from what I gather, I just click a button, locate my hdd image, and boom-bada-bing I'm on it in a few minutes. It makes me peaceful knowing I never will have to go through the torture known as a re-format again.
 
I love true image. It creates my weekly image (about 50 gigs compressed) in under an hour with no restarts and no bs. I have faith in the images too, because I restored from one when I first got the software to make sure that it was trustworthy.
 
Hmm.. I was just looking at the True Image Home a moment ago and seems something I might have some use for, as I hate formatting/reinstalling when I fool around with stuff :)

Anyways, it mentions "Use the image to restore your PC to a known working state without any reinstallation."

Does this mean I won't be able to restore if I blew my windows away.. like reformatted or something? And how are the backup's stored? A seperate partition, or does it prefer like a network server..?
 
Whenever I made my backup image, it just let me store the image anywhere I wanted. I chose a different HDD/Partition incase I couldn't even boot and had to reformat. From what I've gathered, you can just restore to a previous state from the image like that. But, if you have to reformat, you have to install Windows and Acronis, then you can restore to you're image.
 
Make a recovery/backup CD-Rom first thing. It contains the entire program on a bootable disk. You can now recover onto a brand new hard drive with your disk images located somewhere else, including a usb drive. I keep my monthly backups on a 300gig USB drive I have. They are about 50gigs each.
 
Acronis is very worth it IMO. I have one image with just base drivers and OS tweaks employed, and another one of my current working updated with programs image
 
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