Clone Program

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I want to backup a new Windows XP partition onto CD before I load a
bunch of applications. I've looked at the reviews of Ghost and
Acronis True Image and most reviewers prefer TI8. However, several
users have reported unreliable copies. Here's a representative
comment from someone who had a problem: "when I ran the verification /
check, it said the image was corrupt. I tried this several times, with
the same result."
http://reviews.cnet.com/Acronis_True_Image_8_0/4852-3682_7-31256880.html?tag=tab

Is this a known problem from a previous version that's since been
fixed?
 
I want to backup a new Windows XP partition onto CD before I load a
bunch of applications. I've looked at the reviews of Ghost and
Acronis True Image and most reviewers prefer TI8. However, several
users have reported unreliable copies. Here's a representative
comment from someone who had a problem: "when I ran the verification /
check, it said the image was corrupt. I tried this several times, with
the same result."
http://reviews.cnet.com/Acronis_True_Image_8_0/4852-3682_7-31256880.html?tag=tab
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Is this a known problem from a previous version that's since been fixed?
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Nope, its a real downside with TI.
 
Bob said:
I want to backup a new Windows XP partition onto CD before I load a
bunch of applications. I've looked at the reviews of Ghost and
Acronis True Image and most reviewers prefer TI8. However, several
users have reported unreliable copies. Here's a representative
comment from someone who had a problem: "when I ran the verification /
check, it said the image was corrupt. I tried this several times, with
the same result."
http://reviews.cnet.com/Acronis_True_Image_8_0/4852-3682_7-31256880.html?tag=tab

Is this a known problem from a previous version that's since been
fixed?
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I no longer use Acronis for this very reason.

What I do is grab a spare hard drive and use Casper XP to make an image
to that spare drive.

I know you want to make a backup to CD, but I have yet to come across a
program that does this well enough for me to feel confident about the
integrity of the backup.


Odie
 
Odie Ferrous said:
I no longer use Acronis for this very reason.

What I do is grab a spare hard drive and use Casper XP to make an image
to that spare drive.

I know you want to make a backup to CD, but I have yet to come across a
program that does this well enough for me to feel confident about the
integrity of the backup.
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If you're happy with booting back to dos, the best is ghost 2003
(but only version 2003, later versions are inferior).

It can backup directly to CDs or DVDs, and even makes them bootable for
the restore. Never has let me down at all.
 
If you're happy with booting back to dos, the best is ghost 2003 (but only
version 2003, later versions are inferior).
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Depends on what you want to do, the support for backup to
a drive on the other side of the lan is vastly superior in ghost 9.
 
Bob Simon said:
I want to backup a new Windows XP partition onto CD before I load a
bunch of applications. I've looked at the reviews of Ghost and
Acronis True Image and most reviewers prefer TI8. However, several
users have reported unreliable copies. Here's a representative
comment from someone who had a problem: "when I ran the verification /
check, it said the image was corrupt. I tried this several times, with
the same result."
http://reviews.cnet.com/Acronis_True_Image_8_0/4852-3682_7-31256880.html?tag=tab

Is this a known problem from a previous version that's since been
fixed?
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Just go find a copy of Ghost 2003 or NSW 2003 that includes Ghost, which you
can probably pick up on eBay for $10-15. I've been cloning once per week
for years with Ghost and have never had a problem.
 
I no longer use Acronis for this very reason.
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I understand that this isn't an Acronis-specific problem, but a large
file copy corruption problem; that is, the corruption shows in the
checksum of any large file copied on the problem systems. There are a
number of threads on their support forum
(http://www.wilderssecurity.com/forumdisplay.php?f=65) that show test
results on this.

Do you have results that indicates it's a TI problem? I haven't seen
it yet on my systems, but nobody's come up with a root-cause
correlation yet that I know of.
 
Bob said:
Just go find a copy of Ghost 2003 or NSW 2003 that includes Ghost, which
you
can probably pick up on eBay for $10-15. I've been cloning once per week
for years with Ghost and have never had a problem.
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Does Ghost 2003 require machine-specific activation? If not, then go for
the standalone--NWS does require activation.
 
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