Best imaging software for SATA

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I am planning to get an Asus P4C800E Deluxe and an SATA drive, I am
currently running a scsi set up and wondering what the best imaging software
is?

Thanks
 
These products are gets the the most acclaim on these groups:
BootItNG (www.bootitng.com) has a full function trial version
Acrinis TrueImage (www.acronis.com) has a 15-day trial version (will not
restore)
Symantec/Norton Ghost 9.0
(http://www.symantec.com/sabu/ghost/ghost_personal/ ) (includes version
2003)

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I am planning to get an Asus P4C800E Deluxe and an SATA drive, I am
currently running a scsi set up and wondering what the best imaging software
is?

Thanks
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No issues using Acronis with my P4C800E-Deluxe XP/SP2 and WD Raptor
74g SATA system. Can't speak about any of the other imaging programs
out there.

Ender

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These products are gets the the most acclaim on these groups:
BootItNG (www.bootitng.com) has a full function trial version
Acrinis TrueImage (www.acronis.com) has a 15-day trial version (will not
restore)
Symantec/Norton Ghost 9.0
(http://www.symantec.com/sabu/ghost/ghost_personal/ ) (includes version
2003)
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Acronis won some Editor's Choice awards when Drive Image got a little
long in the tooth. I switched to it, but I can't recommend it. It
seems to be getting flakier and less stable with newer versions. I'm
now back to Norton Ghost 9 which, by the way, is absolutely nothing
but a rebadged version of PowerQuest's (now owned by Symantec) V2i
Protector Desktop. Nevertheless, it seems to work a little more
reliably for me than Acronis True Image 8. The latter is frequently
giving cryptic failure messages, too frequently requiring
reinstallation, and even in the latest build is incapable of
automatically splitting image files into parts that are correctly
sized for burning onto DVD for off-site storage. There is a lot of
really sloppy irresponsible programming in True Image, and it's
getting worse.
Ron
 
Drive Image 7 gave me a real fright when I needed to use it. I had a
hard disk failure on my system drive, but thought I was OK because I
had backup images. After booting from the recovery CD (PQRE) I tried
to run a restore but it told me my backup images were corrupt! This
was despite my verifying the images after creation. It turned out that
under PQRE it would not deal correctly with the compression system
used by DI7. The solution was to install a temporary verion of XP so I
could access the backup image files, then installed DI7, then
re-exported the backup image in uncompressed format. Re-boot from the
CD and restored the original image (it was happy with the uncompressed
files) by over-writing the temporary XP installation.

Before I figured that one out I had moved the new replacement disk
over to another computer temporarily, also with DI7 installed where I
keep another copy of the backup image on it's local hard drive (yeah,
I try to be safe...) and tried to restore the drive from there. DI7
restore seemed to go normally, then at the end it said 'resizing file
system'. Funny I thought - why is it doing that? So I left it to it
for a while. Came back to it and not only was the restored image
corrupt it had also WIPED the system disk on my second computer. Grrr!
No way should it have touched that drive.

That's the short story, you can maybe imagine how long it took to work
out what the problem was in the first place... I was very fortunate
to finally get the system back via the uncompressed images. Whether
Ghost9 is any better I do not know but I'm very wary of drive image
programs.
 
Ron,
I suggest you email Acronis support with your problems. They were very
responsive to my problems in getting my Silicone Image 3112 Raid controller
problem fixed.
They even gave me a free copy of True Image 8 for my trouble and working with
them.

Lee
 
I have never heard of that one before.



Ender said:
No issues using Acronis with my P4C800E-Deluxe XP/SP2 and WD Raptor
74g SATA system. Can't speak about any of the other imaging programs
out there.

Ender

"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do
nothing." Edmund Burke
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No, Ghost 2003 comes with Ghost 9.0 on a separate CD


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Thomas Wendell said:
No, Ghost 2003 comes with Ghost 9.0 on a separate CD


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I have had the best luck with Ghost 2003.

Bob


LeeBos said:
Ron,
I suggest you email Acronis support with your problems. They were very
responsive to my problems in getting my Silicone Image 3112 Raid controller
problem fixed.
They even gave me a free copy of True Image 8 for my trouble and working with
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John said:
I am planning to get an Asus P4C800E Deluxe and an SATA drive, I am
currently running a scsi set up and wondering what the best imaging software
is?

Thanks
Click to expand...

I suggest Ghost 9, or Drive Image 7.

Where I work there have been Ghost vs. Drive Image flame wars for years.
I always preferred the Drive Image user interface, and found the two
products provided similar functionality, but leapfrogged each other with
each new version released.

Drive Image 7 finally eliminated the last of the annoyances - the need
to boot DOS to back up a system partition (can now be scheduled and run
without shutting down Windows), and the requirement to create DOS boot
disks which were frequently hardware-specific (DI7 can boot from the
product CD and configure networking without user intervention - required
only for system partition restores or after drive failure).

I guess Drive Image wins the flame wars - Symantec bought Powerquest,
and Ghost 9 is Drive Image 7 with incremental image backup functionality
added. The traditional Ghost user interface is no more...

P2B
 
Thanks P2B. I will end up with Drive Image 7 since I have used that for
years and been quite happy with it.

I wonder how it will do with SCSI and SATA drives. It always worked well
with my SCSI's.

John
 
With Ghost 9 one can schedule complete AND incremental
backups. It is a version of ^PowerQuest Vi2 Protector
(Drive Image 7 + incremental backups).

As you may know Symantec (Norton) has acquired
PowerQuest.
 
Ron,
I suggest you email Acronis support with your problems. They were very
responsive to my problems in getting my Silicone Image 3112 Raid controller
problem fixed.
They even gave me a free copy of True Image 8 for my trouble and working with
them.

Lee
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Oh, rest assured, I've emailed Acronis Tech Support. All I ever get
is "please install our latest build." They'll do this EVEN if you
tell them in your email that you're already using the latest build.
The users on the Acronis forum are complaining frequently about the
decline of this product and the worsening quality of Acronis tech
support.


Ron
 
I suggest Ghost 9, or Drive Image 7.

Where I work there have been Ghost vs. Drive Image flame wars for years.
I always preferred the Drive Image user interface, and found the two
products provided similar functionality, but leapfrogged each other with
each new version released.

Drive Image 7 finally eliminated the last of the annoyances - the need
to boot DOS to back up a system partition (can now be scheduled and run
without shutting down Windows), and the requirement to create DOS boot
disks which were frequently hardware-specific (DI7 can boot from the
product CD and configure networking without user intervention - required
only for system partition restores or after drive failure).

I guess Drive Image wins the flame wars - Symantec bought Powerquest,
and Ghost 9 is Drive Image 7 with incremental image backup functionality
added. The traditional Ghost user interface is no more...

P2B
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Well, yes, you could put it that way. Technically speaking, though,
Ghost 9 is a rebadged version of a different, lesser known, former
PowerQuest product, V2i Protector Desktop (even uses the old V2i file
extension). V2i, in turn, may have been DI with incremental backups.
Ron
 
Milleron said:
Well, yes, you could put it that way. Technically speaking, though,
Ghost 9 is a rebadged version of a different, lesser known, former
PowerQuest product, V2i Protector Desktop (even uses the old V2i file
extension). V2i, in turn, may have been DI with incremental backups.
Ron
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Interesting. I wasn't aware of V2i Protector Desktop, and assumed
Symantec developed the incremental backup functionality after the
acquisition of Powerquest. DI7 also uses the v2i file extension.

P2B
 
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